Take your pick - from :
http://www.testingtheglobe.com/bible.html - there's too much to copy/paste. Do you interpret any of these to mean a literal firmament with windows to let in/shut out the rain, on an earth set upon foundational molten pillars?
Yes. My opinion is that 'wormhole/stargate/cosmic taps' sort of portals were opened in our time and space connecting to the region outside our 'known universe', where waters above the firmament were at the time.
Satanists would say the other way round. Same with Islam and Judaism. How do you know you have the God and they have Demons beside your opinion? In fact, how do you even know Gods and Demons are real?
God came to earth to prove it by dying for us and also fulfilling hundreds and hundreds of precise prophesies about Him coming.
Well, I don't worship, so not particularly fussed - but it is mentioned that this would be your eternal task on arriving in heaven.
Well, that is a bit like saying it is my eternal job to love my mom and dad who will be there also. Not really, it is just a facet of life there, lots of love everywhere. The folks there will always remember what Jesus did for us, and love Him t bits. Many cal that worship.
Webster says this..
: to honor or reverence as a divine being or supernatural power
2: to regard with great or extravagant respect, honor, or devotion
- a celebrity worshipped by her fans
Of course He will be honored and respected. Remember also that He honors and respects us also. Like in a marriage, don't they talk about love honor and respect?
Nope. there's no mention of her opinion being considered anywhere. Biblically, her testimony is only half that of his, so his say so is all the Priest would care about. So if I suspected my wife of infidelity for whatever reason I thought, and I take her to the priest to be forced that bitter water cocktail that would make her unwell enough to cause a miscarry - and she didn't abort her pregnancy, but just got sick for a few days, then all good? Her fault for being a woman?
The issue is not man or woman, but adultery and lying to God in that ancient nation that was set up to prepare the way.
No he isn't, he's only in the Bible. Same with Moses and Noah. King Nebuchadnezzar and his failed prophet made it into history though...
Flood stories of various kinds involving a big boat and mankind being saved abound. Now Moses was a great man of Egypt that brought a great defeat and humiliation to the nation so it is no surprise they tried to erase the memory!
Here, Start with this list & point out where you think your biblical characters lived and major events occurred:
There is some debate about what leader was there at the Exodus. I could zoom in and maybe make an educated guess, but that is another thread. One clue I would look for in dating Egypt is life spans. We could look at the dropping life spans of man listed in the bible, and get approx dates! Far better than so called science/same state past based dates.
Oh, Maybe you could point out why the ENTIRE CIVILISATION of ANCIENT EGYPT doesn't ever reference your God, not even once?
They apparently latched onto other spirits whom they love honored and respected. After Babel, the folks who had rejected Him formed nations and adopted various demon gods.
Not at all. you have no evidence for your magical state past for a start, and all the measurements, observations and evidence we have (you know, ALL the support) would only correlate if there was the same state past as there is now. I know you'll fail to grasp why, you always do.
However it looks to your circular religion in the fishbowl, the bottom line is that science does not know the state of nature in the past.
Right...(?) I said that - don't you read my responses?? What does it take to make a civilisation - perhaps people already in the area? I tell you what doesn't happen though, people who speak different languages don't all wander off to different parts of the world.
No? You make it sound like you have some experience with this? I assume that Babel was at the time of the nature change, and probably one of the effects of it caused by God. That means that also about this time was massive rapid plate movements, and mountain building/uplift etc etc. The area that was then the plains where they were building the tower of Babel likely was pushed under fairly quickly, so tha is why the tower is not now a historical tourist trap I would think. (probably also why ancient temples at Karnak would now have the summer solstice blocked by hills, so they deduce it must have been a winter solstice they were oriented to)
I suspect that the way man processed info in our brains may have been somewhat affected. (thus perhaps different brain sizes became needed/adapted). This is why I think some early 'nations' resorted to scrawling picture words to communicate with others! It seems logical that peoples with the same language would tend to stick together, even if they traded and communicated with other 'nations'. It may have been that the
groups of people at Babel, building that tower to the spirit realm above at the time, (the nature change also resulted in the spiritual realm being separated from this physical real to a greater degree apparently!) may have
shared 'gods'. That would have been an added incentive to band together. (and perhaps help explain why different areas had different gods!).
So one could hardly wave away the idea that nations would have tended to form.
Wherever they are, will become multicultural and they all tend to speak and learn each others' languages until or unless one language becomes prominent from among them. You then also have to account for why we can trace back all the various languages as they evolve from previous languages for as long as we've had written history. At no point did they all just appear at once.
History is after the fact! There are no records for the time of Babel except the record God preserved and handed down! Men in my opinion possibly never even had written..anything...before Babel, as there was such superior communication then.
By the time man started to need to draw pictures to communicate, and later progressed to writing, Babel was long gone, and we were well into this present state.nature!