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originally posted by: pheonix358
God was upset at his creation.
He sent in the flood.
He should be tried in the world court for multiple counts of genocide and billions of cases of animal cruelty.
Go and make excuses but remember, that when he sent the flood, he drowned an awful, god awful number of little babies and children.
Now stop please with the excuses. They are simply not acceptable.
P
originally posted by: jrflipjr
That sure would be a bummer for all those disparate civilizations that reference a great flood. I bet they never realized they were Christian all along.
That the Biblical deluge story is not original with the Hebrews redactors of the Bible has been known from the time of the discovery & deciphering of the eleventh tablet of the Babylonian "Epic of Gilgamesh" by the British Museum's George Smith. The Babylonian deluge myth itself, however, is of Sumerian origin. In 1914 Arno Poebel published a fragment consisting of the lower third of a six-column Sumerian tablet in the Nippur collection of the University Museum, the contents of which are devoted in large part to the story of the flood. This fragment still remains unique & unduplicated, & although scholars have been "all eyes & ears" for new deluge tablets, not a single additional fragment has turned up in any museum, private collection, or excavation. The piece published by Poebel is still our only source, & the translation prepared by him is still basic & standard.
The contents of this lone tablet are noteworthy not only for the flood episode, although that is its main theme, but also for the passages preceding & introducing the deluge story. Badly broken as the text is, these passages are nevertheless of significance for Sumerian cosmogony & cosmology. They include a number of revealing statements concerning the creation of man, the origin of kingship, & the existence of at least 5 antediluvian cities. Here, then, is practically the entire extant text of the myth with all its tantalizing obscurities & uncertainties. It provides an apt example of what the cuneiform is up against, and of the surprises the future holds in store for him.
Since it is the lower third of the tablet that is preserved, we start right off with a break of some 37 lines, & there is no way of knowing just how the myth began. We then find a deity addressing other deities, probably stating that he will save mankind from destuciton & that as a result man will build the cities & temples of the gods. Following the address are 3 lines which are difficult to relate to the context: they seem to describe the actions performed by the deity to make his words effective. Then come 4 lines concerned with the creation of man, animals, & plants. The entire passage reads:
"My mankind, in its destruction I will..,
To Nintu I will return the .., of my creatures,
I will return the people to their settlements,
Of the cities, they will build their places of the divine laws,
I will make restful their shade,
Of our houses, they will lay their bricks in pure places,
The places of our decisions they will found in pure places."
He directed the pure fire-quenching water,
Perfected the rites & the exalted divine laws,
On the earth he...d, placed the... there,
After An, Enil, Enki, & Ninhursag
Had fashioned the blackheaded people,
Vegetation luxuriated from the earth,
Animals, four-legged (creatures) of the plain, were brought artfully into existence.
originally posted by: grumpy64
a reply to: AlephBet
Well done. Rebirth through water. Makes sense. I don't know why someone hasn't figured this out before.
Great flood=baptism
Remember two things. You were GIVEN life. It's a gift. You were not here before you were given LIFE. Second, the Redeemer who fixes the error also gives you ETERNAL life in peace and perfection. The one you judge is you.
originally posted by: pheonix358
God was upset at his creation.
He sent in the flood.
He should be tried in the world court for multiple counts of genocide and billions of cases of animal cruelty.
Go and make excuses but remember, that when he sent the flood, he drowned an awful, god awful number of little babies and children.
Now stop please with the excuses. They are simply not acceptable.
P
I am here because my mommy and my daddy had sex and nine months later I popped out of mommy's tummy.
If you alone created something.......say a piece of clay that you shaped into a piece of art; who has the authority to throw it away, to destroy it? The one who made it or just anyone?
originally posted by: pheonix358
a reply to: Jesuslives4u
If you alone created something.......say a piece of clay that you shaped into a piece of art; who has the authority to throw it away, to destroy it? The one who made it or just anyone?
If you cannot see the difference between a piece of clay and a living being then you ...... yeah, I just remembered the T&Cs.
It is this type of thinking that lets the zealots kill and maim for one deity or another all down through history.
P
Well...God made a "genetical" mistake that is why he sent the flood.I don't like this magical and fairytale creation of our planet,life and everything.
In those times,even in the Bible is told that there was a race of giants lurking on Earth,even mythical creatures like in the Egyptian religions or any other mithology,killing people and consuming the resources too fast.
Noah,the "chosen" of God,he wasn't choosed (in my opinion) for his kindness and the fact that he strongly believed in God,old writings were found ( don't remember the locations) descrbes Noah as beeing born from a virgin woman,like Mary.An angel came to his mother and he blessed her and made Noah with her.
originally posted by: MamaJ
a reply to: AlephBet
Im soooo glad you are back. My brother, I have missed you and believe me when I say, it feels good to again read my thoughts/knowledge coming from you. I'm not alone. I wish I could explain to an audience the way you do.
Its a shame in a world of symbolism and intellect we do not find more people discovering the truth's within the Bible and abroad.
Everything you are implying and the mysteries you unfold here in this thread and others you've created along the way are filled with so much truth.
The seeker who never stops seeking! Love it!!
For the Christian or any seeker wanting to understand life and death in this world, pay attention to this OP.... you will learn A LOT!
xoxo