Zone1 Was The Garden Of Eden A Real Place?

[ding]

It a much earlier story from Babylon.. see Babylonian Genesis.

The Jews borrowed from the older cultures around them. These stories are fiction... They have truth just like Aesop's Fables but they are fiction.

Yes, the accounts of the first 11 chapters were thousands of years before Moses recorded them. Again... shared heritage, shared culture which was passed down orally from generation to generation for thousands of years. That's how they passed down information back then.

 

[Woodznutz]

However according to YOUR Bible - human mankind starts with Adam&Eve around 4000 B.C. on day 6, not even to mention the ludicrous claim, that the same God created an inhabitable earth in 7 days, plus stars and the moon.

That's the common understanding. However, that is not what the Bible says about the Genesis creation. You have to study it carefully. Gap Theory helps.

"In The Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth" is an overarching standalone statement that has little to do with the Genesis account, which records the restoration of the surface of the earth, not the original creation.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Yes, the accounts of the first 11 chapters were thousands of years before Moses recorded them. Again... shared heritage, shared culture which was passed down orally from generation to generation for thousands of years. That's how they passed down information back then.

Moses corrected flawed oral tradition

 

[Frankenstein]

Nope - only people like YOU "whine" about religion - whilst having no proof whatsoever. Apart from reciting endlessly a Hebrew kiddo-book - whilst claiming others to be idiots.

I simply relate between proven scientific and archeological findings.

BTW as surada had stated already, and I can only fully confirm this: I've never had any problem discussing religion with Muslims.

This is a religious forum, if you simply come here to bash Christians see your way out! problem is you do believe and just want someone to finally beyond a reasonable doubt prove God, he needs no proving!

 

[surada]

check out "ON DREAMS" by Freud. ---myths reveal UNIVERSAL SYMBOLIC THINKING ----just as do dreams. The assumption that commonalities in myths "prove" that they were "copied" is a conclusion of the very simple, uneducated mind

So what? Babylon, Sumer, Egypt and the Canaanites had these stories long before Abraham.

 

[surada]

Moses corrected flawed oral tradition

Moses was found in the bullrushes just like Sargon.

 

[Woodznutz]

So what? Babylon, Sumer, Egypt and the Canaanites had these stories long before Abraham.

If you don't like the Bible, don't read it. When I was in high school, they wanted me to read "Great Expectations". I didn't like it, so I didn't read it.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Moses was found in the bullrushes just like Sargon.

if you don't believe the bible, why do you claim to be Christian?

 

[irosie91]

It a much earlier story from Babylon.. see Babylonian Genesis.

The Jews borrowed from the older cultures around them. These stories are fiction... They have truth just like Aesop's Fables but they are fiction.

Sorta like the" mithra my

So what? Babylon, Sumer, Egypt and the Canaanites had these stories long before Abraham.

SO? also true of the "rise from the dead" bull shit----which is also a
universal HUMAN SYMBOL. Try talking to a psychotic which is a kind
of "dream state" My all time fave case--- delusion of ANGELS in a very
unlettered mid-life church lady turned out to be neurosyphilis

 

[irosie91]

Moses was found in the bullrushes just like Sargon.

In my town lots of people were found in the bullrushes. The fact
even made it to the movie "THE GODFATHER"

 

[Woodznutz]

Moses was found in the bullrushes just like Sargon.

Maybe Moses's mother knew the story of Sargon and thought it was a good idea. I copy lots of good ideas. In fact, isn't that what our educational system is based on, learning the ideas of those who came before us?

 

[irosie91]

Maybe Moses's mother knew the story of Sargon and thought it was a good idea. I copy lots of good ideas. In fact, isn't that what our educational system is based on, learning the ideas of those who came before us?

putting kids out-----to be either adopted or die actually happened LOTS
both in myths and reality. -----ask a bookish person

 

[Frankenstein]

if you don't believe the bible, why do you claim to be Christian?

Wait, what, he claims to be Christian?

 

[Woodznutz]

putting kids out-----to be either adopted or die actually happened LOTS
both in myths and reality. -----ask a bookish person

My dad sorta did that to me. He took me out to the middle of the lake one night and tossed me in. Swimming back to shore wasn't too hard, it was getting out of the gunny sack that was difficult.

 

[irosie91]

My dad sorta did that to me. He took me out to the middle of the lake one night and tossed me in. Swimming back to shore wasn't too hard, it was getting out of the gunny sack that was difficult.

he forgot to tie it up with cord-----sealed with a tight surgeon's knot

 

[surada]

if you don't believe the bible, why do you claim to be Christian?

The Bible is about teaching the truth..like Aesop's Fables or uncle Remus. You're supposed to learn from them.

 

[surada]

If you don't like the Bible, don't read it. When I was in high school, they wanted me to read "Great Expectations". I didn't like it, so I didn't read it.

I have read both several times.

 

[irosie91]

The Bible is about teaching the truth..like Aesop's Fables or uncle Remus. You're supposed to learn from them.

who decided that? Lots and lots of people wrote lots of
BOOKS OF TRUTH

 

[surada]

who decided that? Lots and lots of people wrote lots of TRUE BOOKS

The Bible stories are fiction borrowed from other cultures.

 

[irosie91]

The Bible stories are fiction borrowed from other cultures.

"the bible" ??? which scriptural writing do you call
"the bible"???