The creation of "heaven and earth" a world above and a world below, has nothing whatever to do with the Big Bang, the solar system, or the first plants animals or human beings. It is simply about the Law coming into the world through Moses as "a light to the nations" which was SPOKEN into existence around 3,500 years ago.
When the children of Adam and Eve wanted to find a mate THEY WENT TO A CITY which should have been a dead giveaway, if not at least a clue, that the story was never intended to be taken literally by intelligent people.
The Burckle Crater, dated to the approximate time of Gilgamesh, is about 25 times the size of meteor crater in Arizona and sits under over 11,000 feet of water at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. This impact would have instantly vaporized billions of metric tons of water into the atmosphere causing mega tsunamis, and a mind boggling deluge that would have lasted for weeks and spawned superstorms, cyclones, hurricanes, tornadoes, and relentless downpours around the world which would have washed away every coastal city and every town village and settlement situated near rivers streams and even dry washes in the deserts on every continent.
There are almost 300 flood myths from every continent on earth recorded by people who never heard of Noah.
A teaching about the dangers of human hubris. Even Jesus mentioned a tower that fell during construction in his life that he most likely predicted and when fulfilled confirmed his status as a prophet of God.
4. Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone
An event not unlike the Tunguska event of 1908 also turned into a sublime story to teach children moral lessons.
5. Plagues in Egypt
6. Parting of the Red Sea, and for all the anal retentive types regarding the authenticity and accuracy of the original Hebrew, the party of the Sea of Reeds.
Each plague follows a logical pattern of natural events. Many of which may be connected to the eruption of Santorini around 1600BCE, like burning hail falling from the sky, and the parting of the sea of reeds, crossing on dry land and water sweeping away the pursuing army which can be rationally explained by a tsunami.
The timing of natural evens helping the Israelites would have been seen as being caused by "the hand of God".
7. God giving the Hebrew people manna to eat out of thin air.
Manna from heaven, the food of angels, represents Divine instruction. Simple as that. The Israelites left Egypt with large numbers of livestock, including flocks and herds, as they journeyed into the wilderness.
Even though there was plenty of food. Teaching from God is what sustained them in the wilderness.
8. Elijah being taken up to heaven in a chariot.
Being "taken up" in a whirlwind is a euphemism for Elijah being killed by a lynch mob. A no brainer.
9. Jonah being swallowed by a whale for 3 days and then spat out and survived.
The reluctant prophet was the in "the belly of the beast" which is a known metaphor not unlike Jesus spending forty days and forty nights in the wilderness, living among "the wild beasts", (the romans) presumably doing what wild beasts do in the wilderness. Thats why Jesus said, "The only sign you will be given is the sign of Jonah."
10. The powers of the Ark of the Covenant.
The Ark served as a sacred container for God's law and a symbol of his Divine presence, from which he spoke to the Israelites. Through the Law. There could be any number of natural explanations for the walls of Jericho falling down, turned into a fantastical story, a moral teaching, not to mention the metaphorical implications that I won't bother explaining to you who has been diverted into an irrational fantasy land by superstitious archaic lore.
Dearest Votto, the religiously addled 'believer' in miraculous bulshit.
If you want a rational explanation for the miraculous birth of Jesus or any of his miracles all you have to do is ask
Sincerely,
The Answer Man.
