You would think that there would be other sources then the Bible when it came to alot of Jews being held as slaves in Ancient Egypt or moving across the desert to Israel. And yet somehow, no one died (no bones), even though there was the thing with the Angel of Death. To make it all better the Jews did not say anything!\nAnd Noah's ark? Who seriously believes that actually happened? Alright, let me tell you guy's something, Noah had to build a boat that held two of EVERY species. Even the species that were not discovered and have not been discovered, Noah had to somehow gather two of every one of them and bring them back before the flood. That by itself would take at least a hundred years.Then he had to single-handedly build the boat, which would have at least been the size of L.A.  That would have killed him (overwork and exhaustion can kill you) and would have taken him about two hundred years (think about how long it took to build New York!)  And he had to build an alter to God!
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That makes a lot more sense than people used to be monkeys which used to be some sort of primordial ooze. It isnt like you are going to be able to come on here and convince people that what they believe is wrong so why bother?
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I believe that it happened but not exactly like its told in the bible...you should watch the documentary called the Exodus Decoded. It's really well put together and it makes you realize alot of things.
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Well, because Jesus isn't God himself.  Though that certainly is a very hard question, one that many have pondered over.  This was awful, why weren't more saved?  And it wasn't just Jews that died in the concentration camps, it was also people who were disabled or coloured, or basically not liked that weren't "aryan".  The Jews are the "chosen ones" and Jesus himself was a Jew.  So the only thing I can say would be there must have been some awfully huge cosmic lesson needed to mankind for God to not intervene sooner.  Or maybe he did, but just in smaller ways.
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Thank you for the article- it had some interesting insights!\n\nI have long thought that there was something odd in the part of Genesis 2:1 and the phrasing Genesis 1 used. I've been looking for things that explained it and your article did just that.\n\nIt simply makes no sense that the God who sent His people to the wilderness for 40 years would have (or needed to) rush the planet in 6 days, then fake various items to make it seem much older. He does not work that way at any other time, so why then?\n\nI have said for years that when the Bible and science or reality conflict, our understanding of one or the other is flawed- and I think we've really messed up our understanding of the Bible!
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A person needs to read this passage very carefully, and it really helps to read it in the Hebrew. The three men are never actually identified as God. A number of Jewish rabbis have noticed the same thing. It is *first* said that Abraham was sitting in his tent and had a vision of God, *then* he opened his eyes and saw three men. While Moses's narative style sometimes has an overview of events, and then more details, it's hard to say if that's what's happening here or not. In fact, it's almost funny to read if you take the stance that these three were angels in the last half of Genesis, because it has Abraham speaking to the angel that remained behind, and calling him "Adoni" (Lord) but never YHVH. But the one to reply is always YHVY and never Adoni. Also, in Genesis 18:22, it says that the men Abraham was speaking with turned and left, but Abraham stayed and pleaded with the LORD.\n\nBut even if you take the stance that one, or even all three, of these "angels" were in fact God Almighty, there is nothing to keep God Almighty as a spirit from creating a body and animating it himself. St. Augustine gets into that kind of an idea  little bit in one of his 15 books on the Trinity, I don't remember which off the top of my head.
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well, maybe one could say that without thought...but prehaps a better view is not that HE killed them but rather didn't save them. I't may sound like the same thing but try it this way.  If I told you to get out of the road, and you chose not to...when the car hits you, does that mean I killed you? Or perhaps its the cars fault? Or just maybe its your own fault?  \n\nNow I do seem to remember that there was this lifeboat...and all we've really been told is that Noah's family got on it with a bunch of animals. \n\nI've never seen anywhere that it tells us whether or not he offered anyone a ride, or chased anyone away either...But from what i can tell it was a big boat.  So he probably wasn't hiding out secretly building it in his garage. Just maybe people could have actually seen him building it for the last 100+ years or so...Add my guess is that his lifesyle was probably a good example that he just might have know what he was up to...just maybe...so just maybe people were to busy to care.  \n\nSo Just maybe when God decided to take a break from holding weather paterns in check...maybe a lot of people decided not to get out of the way, until it was a little too late.
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It's all a load of nonsense. The whole 666 thing came from the Bible, which was put together by a bunch of Romans who wanted to control people. Why is it people still believe in the Bible despite the fact it is just a selective history? They take it as gospel, at face value. There were hundreds of books but only a few were chosen to go in the Bible, the ones that reflected the view of the Romans and gave across the views that they wanted to give across. Know a story when you read one!
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LOL...Good point! Give em something to think about!\n\n********\n\nNoah and his ark was actually a true story.....notice, I said STORY....not EVENT.\n\nThe Fertile Crescent had spring floods every year, due to the snows melting from the Ural mountains to the north. The story was a tale told at the time to get locals to prepare for the spring floods by moving to higher grounds or to build barges/floats, to keep above the flood waters.\n\nThe "story" says it was the "whole world" that flooded.....actually it was THEIR whole world.....people didn't use to travel a lot, ya know. the whole bible is a compiled group of stories just like this one.
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I have read it and the following will prove it. These are real people with birth and death time. I love it. I read it 13 times in ten years and about 20 now, as they sa, each time you see what you missed before. I can read through 2 Chronicles in half a day now. I have never tried to describe the probably more than 1000 religions. I wanted to know the bible first and then determine who was right. I did not do that yet, do not except those studied.\n\nMoses began to compile the first five books. It is evident that Abraham was a collector of information. No problem for\nIsaac, Jacob and the 12 tribes to keep up with it. Easy for\ninfo to be passed onto Noah #10 1056-950-2006, and son Shem 1558-600-2158, 25 years to #20 Abraham dies and Ishmael is age 89, Isaac is age 75 Gen.25:9; when they bury Abraham.\n\nIshmael-2094-137-2231, and Isaac 2108-180-2288, after Adam.\nJacob-2168-147-2315[Gen.47:9,2... Joseph 2258-110-2368, end of Gen.50:26; \nJob 2293-140-2433, Moses 2433-40-2473-40-2513, Exo.7:7; 12:40,41[430]; Moses age 80 is 40 years in wilderness compiling 5 bible books to 2553, 1513 BCE. Deut.1:3; 34:7;\n\nJudges and priest to Jair 301 years from Moses, from\nJoshua is 300? Judges 11:26; 2553 + 301 = year 2854 After Adam in 89 years, Samuel is age 60= book of Ruth.\nYear 2943 and 1 Samuel to 25:1[Samuel dies]; Gad and Nathan write, 2 Samuel[Moses = 2513 + Acts 13:20; = 450 Samuel age\n60 in 2963, [+ 20 2983 dies]. 16 Samuel + 70 2Sam.5:4,5; king David dies and Psalms comes to be, 4 =] 90 = 3033 and Solomon begans temple 480th year from Moses death 1Ki.6:1; 11:42; 3069 is 997 BCE.\n\nSolomon lives another 36 years to 3069 after Adam and wrote\nProverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon. Kings end 3460 and 70 years later Ezra, Nehemiah, Ester and Mordecai, Haggai and Zechariah books come to be to 433 BCE Malachi.\n\n3069 + 391 years 1 and 2 Kings and I and 2 Chronicles the prophets Isaiah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, until Judah kings end captive to Babylon {#3 Empire in Satan's world], Jeremiah writes Jeremiah and Lamentations, Ezekiel and Daniel write. Daniel in 3460 after Adam and 606 BCE, gives complete prophecy to Jesus cut off in Rome #6 Empire in Satan's world, World get bible {in #7 Empire in Satan's world,].\n\nDan.4:16,23,25,32[7x 360 =] 2520 years beyond Babylon or 5980 after Adam, the world will have the bible and Rev.12:7-12[Rom.16:20; and Heb.1:1-13; enemy Satan, Dan,12:1-13]; Michael cast Satan out of heaven and has a short time until Jesus takes over as the 8th Empire in Satan's world is second coming of Jesus Rev.17:1-6,10-14[Jesus comes in 8th].\nRev.20:1-6; Jesus brings back everything to the original state of newness and perfection it had before sin, some\nmen turn to angels to join him in heaven as priest of God\nand Christ Heb.12:22-24; 1 Cor.15:22-28,50-53; John 6:66; 1Thes.4:15-17; Rev.3:12; 21:1-5;\n\nSo the New Testament had to began after {3460 + 606 after Christ= 4066]. We are 2006 after less KJV 1611 and in 303\nyears was an excepted translation, now any will do, but KJV is 395 years in our world.\nI hope I did not miss something, hard to do so much.
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so many of those answers just make me want to cry!\nthe bible does not mention dinosaurs so they did not exist?!?!?\nlets just ignore facts and all those fossils!\n\nIt is insanity!
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I find that question rather thought provoking and slightly humorous.\nMaybe we could communicate with all animals back then.\nHow did Noah get all those animals and bugs and creatures on the boat for instance, maybe he just asked.\nAdam did run the garden of eden and therefore he must of been very knowledgible with many things.  And if he had such a close relationship with God then who knows, maybe you are on to something.\nI did hear someone say that the animals had fear of man put into them after the flood.  And God did confuse the language of the people at the time of Babel and who knows what else .\nI think CS Lewis wrote a divinely inspired story that tugs at the heart strings of those who can see the love , gentleness and bravery and integrity of that beautiful lion. I felt like bawling my eyes out when he had to take that cruel humiliation for those whom he loved and looked after.  Just like Jesus did for us.
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weird huh.\n\nconsider this too.  arn't we all really decendants of Noah?  after the flood he saved the animals and only his family.\n\npretty suspsicious.
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God told Noah: "And as for you, take for yourself every sort of food that is eaten; and you must gather it to yourself, and it must serve as food for you and for them.”  (Gen. 6:21)\n\n"Later on the dove came to Noah about the time of evening and, look! there was an olive leaf freshly plucked in its bill, and so Noah got to know that the waters had abated from the earth. 12 And he went on waiting still another seven days.  Then he sent out the dove, but it did not come back again to him anymore."  (Gen. 8:12,)  This indicates that vegetation was growing again on the earth, like the olive tree.  After Noah sent the dove out the third time, it did not come back, which most likely shows that ample vegetation had grown on the earth to feed the dove.\nYet, some olive trees in the Flood apparently retained their vitality, enabling them to sprout fresh shoots when the waters receded.\n\nConcerning the olive tree, 'The New Bible Dictionary' states:  “If cut down, new shoots spring up from the root, so that as many as five new trunks could thus come into being.  Moribund [near dead] olives usually sprout in this manner also.”  It is “as if its vitality were indestructible,” says The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge.  No human today knows the details, such as salinity and temperature, of the floodwaters. Hence, we cannot be sure about their potential effect on olive trees and other vegetation.\n\nIf you would like further information, please contact Jehovah's Witnesses at the local Kingdom Hall.  Or visit http://www.watchtower.org
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The story of Noah's ark is only a retelling of a much older Mesopotamian flood account. However, the Mesopotamian's didn't have the god and punishment of sin in their story. It was added for the drama and fear that is seen throughout the bible.\n\nHow big would it have been? Well the bible tells you! A cubit is about a foot and a half long. Do the math. And how did Noah get 2 of each species from all the continents from all over the world?\n\nModern day shipbuilders don't believe the story. He had tools made of stone! It is simply not possible. (just watched a National geographic show on Noah's ark)Why should we? \n\nGrowing number of scientists who believe? Where? Can you give your source of info? Oh do you mean they believe in a flood or in the story of Noah?\n\nThere is much to doubt not only about Noah, but about the entire book.
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The area around where this happened was divided into different ethinic groups and actually seperate countries, & the Jews where not the majority at all. So the Swine probably belonged to some Greeks or others. However it is more then likely that the whole story is an allegory and bull$hit. Surely an intelligent talented pig like yourself does not believe in demons or miracles and are aware the Bible is 90% lies, and as a pig you know you have a strong sense of self preservation. There is no such thing as Kosher bacon either.
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What most people forgot . . . is what about Noah . . . and his sons?  If you believe in the bible . . . then you believe god destroyed the world with a flood . . . (the flood was proven scientifically, but who done it or was it natural . . . it focused more on natural reasons.)\n\nBut back to the only survivors . . . they had incest with each other too . . . because the only human survivors was Noah . . . his sons and their wives.  Who did their children propagate with in order to extend the human lineage.\n\nThis from an unbeliever  . . .  human society . . . streams with incest and polygamy . . .
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The Hebrew text of the Old Testament does not necessitate that **all** animals on earth were wiped out by a global flood.\n\nThe terms used in the text are consistent with a local/ regional flood and that the animals that were saved on the ark were ones that were relevant to the local ecology (that Noah and his family lived in).\n\nCordially,\nJohn\nhttp://www.GodSci.org\n[God and Science]