Biblical references to nuclear warfare: VIDEOS
- The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah:“…(Abraham) looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah…and he beheld and saw a smoke rising from the earth, as the smoke of a furnace.”(Gen 18:27).
- “…and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.”– Exodus 9:23
“And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.”– Joshua 10:11
“And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.”– 2 Kings 1:12
-“Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.”– Psalms 21:9
“A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.”– Psalms 97:3
“Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.”– Isaiah 29:6
And God said,
Let Us make Man ('adam) in Our image,
after Our likeness.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind,
and cattle after their kind,
and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind:
and God saw that it was good.
And God said,
Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air,
and over the cattle,
and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
(Genesis 1:25-26)
Human DNA is 98.4 percent identical to the DNA of chimps and bonobos, a lesser-known chimp-like ape.
"What is it in that other 1.6 percent that makes us different from them?
That's the critical question," said de Waal, a renowned primatologist.
Human | 100 % |
|---|---|
Chimpanzee | 86.7 % |
Nematode | 75 % |
That puts the Chimpanzee atLESS than HALFWAYbetween a Worm and Human!
Endocranial Volume (in cm3)
[From Aiello and Dean 1990, Pp. 193]
Endocranial Volume (in cm3)
[From Aiello and Dean 1990, Pp. 193]
| Species | Lower 95% Limits for Mean | Upper 95% Limits for Mean | Mean |
Human | 1,159 | 1,243 | 1,201 |
Chimpanzee | 391 | 409 | 400 |
Gorilla | 452 | 486 | 469 |
Orang | 385 | 409 | 397 |
The BIBLICAL FLOOD, NOAH'S FLOOD,the deluge of the Scriptural Genesis record
The BIBLICAL FLOOD, NOAH'S FLOOD,
the deluge of the Scriptural Genesis record
"The water having poured over the terrestrial disk,
human dwellings disappeared. The wind carried them away.
They fastened several boats to one another.
The waves traversed the Rocky Mountains.
A great wind drove them.
Presently the moon and the earth disappeared.
Men died of a terrible heat.
They also perished in the waves.
Men bewailed what happened.
Uprooted trees floated about in the waves.
Men having fastened boats together trembled with cold.
Alas, men were enclosed under the tent without doubt."
The above translation is attributed to the native tribe called the Esquimaux of Canada. Just one of hundreds of flood traditions that many scholars have collected.
Also from further south in the Carolinas we have the following very interesting tradition:
"a star fell to the earth, and rain soon followed.Days and days of rain quenched the fire.Great holes burned in the earth by the fire were filled,forming a great inland sea.
The above traditions would seem to be describing a super super hurricane combined with a burning effect due to the impact of the star. If you need a reminder of just how destructive a major hurricane can be see Mitch.
One survey of 40 traditions of global water destruction, which included traditions that circled the globe and included most major centers of population and many island tribes, showed that they verified the major principles of the Genesis record as follows.
Human seed saved-92%
Boat provided-87%
Universal Destruction-60%
Favored Family-38%
Man in transgression-35%
Divine Destruction-28%
Birds sent out-22%
Animal seed saved-20%
Survivors worship-18%
Divine favor on saved-12%
ALL is How Big ?When considering the Biblical Flood ?
For a first example look at Genesis 3:20 where per the King James Version Adam pronounces Eve as
"the mother of all living"How big is this all ?
Is it totally inclusive of all living matter, plants, bacteria, aquatic life, bugs, fowl, and all the mammals and all primates?
Was she "mother nature" ?
Or on a slightly smaller scale lets rule out plants and just assign her as mother of all non-plant life, does this seem more reasonable ?
But we know that per chapter 1 all plant life and all the animals were created before Eve!
So how about only the primates ?
Or how about only the humanoids ?
Or how about only Adam's offspring ? Just by a straight translation of the Hebrew of this verse only, we are not really exactly sure what is the true meaning and therefore James Moffatt decided to translate it as"all living persons"
A small subset of "all living matter" and the word "persons" is not in the Hebrew!And our preferred translation considering the context and the total creation record is only all of Adam's offspring.
In the flood chronicle of Genesis 6:9 through 8:22 the Hebrew word "kol" or "kowl" (Strong's #3605) is used 46 times and it is translated as all, every, any, or whole depending upon the context. The question is, is this a universal all, meaning that totally everything is effected without any exception, or is it a figurative all effecting only those things within a limited scope of a reference area? Many have interpreted that it means that all living breathing animals on the surface of the earth were destroyed, except for those creatures on the ark. And on the other hand many contend that the destruction of the flood was limited to a smaller subset of the living breathing land animals and that the flood covered only that land surface within the scope of the Biblical narratives.
Let us take a look at the story of the dove as a second example. In verse 8:5, before the release of the dove, we find that "in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen". Then the dove is released in verse 8:9, 40 days later, and "the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot" ... "for the waters were on the face of the whole earth:" But we know that the tops of the mountains were now visible! Why didn't the dove fly to the tops of the mountains and there find rest for the sole of her foot? It would seem that the tops of the mountains, though visible, were either too far off for the dove to fly to them in one day, or they were not suitable for a resting area for the dove. We could thereby conclude that the phrase "for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth:" is referring only to that area which the dove covered in its search and does not refer to the land surface area of the entire globe. Also see the Appendix for more examples.
Then how about the totality of the destruction of the land animals? In verse 7:21 of the King James Translation we see the phrases "of foul", "of cattle", "of beast", and "of every creeping thing". To translate it as "among" would also be proper. This translation is from the prefixing of the Hebrew letter Beyth before the noun. And in verse 22 we also see "of all that was in the dry land, died". In order for these "of/among" phrases to be satisfied you do not have to destroy every living one of these living categories, you only have to destroy at least one or some of every kind of these categories and you will have legally satisfied the requirement in that you have destroyed "of/among" every kind but not having destroyed every living one of that particular category. And thus the flood story is interpreted to indicate that portions of each of the land animal categories were destroyed, and not total breathing land animal population over the entire globe. And the standing flood waters did not totally cover all the global land surface mountains to the tip of Mount Everest, when simple calculations indicate that there is presently not enough water on the earth to do so.
Conclusion: We have hopefully illustrated why it is preferable to interpret the Hebrew Scriptures such that the
Genesis flood record is describing a deluge that impacted all land animal types and rained on all the land surface of the globe, but was somewhat less than a global catastrophe that involved complete reconfiguration of the total surface of the earth and killed totally all breathing animals on the global land surfaces as some have interpreted.
"the mother of all living"How big is this all ?
Is it totally inclusive of all living matter, plants, bacteria, aquatic life, bugs, fowl, and all the mammals and all primates?
Was she "mother nature" ?
Or on a slightly smaller scale lets rule out plants and just assign her as mother of all non-plant life, does this seem more reasonable ?
But we know that per chapter 1 all plant life and all the animals were created before Eve!
Or how about only the humanoids ?
Or how about only Adam's offspring ?
A small subset of "all living matter" and the word "persons" is not in the Hebrew!And our preferred translation considering the context and the total creation record is only all of Adam's offspring.
In the flood chronicle of Genesis 6:9 through 8:22 the Hebrew word "kol" or "kowl" (Strong's #3605) is used 46 times and it is translated as all, every, any, or whole depending upon the context. The question is, is this a universal all, meaning that totally everything is effected without any exception, or is it a figurative all effecting only those things within a limited scope of a reference area? Many have interpreted that it means that all living breathing animals on the surface of the earth were destroyed, except for those creatures on the ark. And on the other hand many contend that the destruction of the flood was limited to a smaller subset of the living breathing land animals and that the flood covered only that land surface within the scope of the Biblical narratives.
Let us take a look at the story of the dove as a second example. In verse 8:5, before the release of the dove, we find that "in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen". Then the dove is released in verse 8:9, 40 days later, and "the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot" ... "for the waters were on the face of the whole earth:" But we know that the tops of the mountains were now visible! Why didn't the dove fly to the tops of the mountains and there find rest for the sole of her foot? It would seem that the tops of the mountains, though visible, were either too far off for the dove to fly to them in one day, or they were not suitable for a resting area for the dove. We could thereby conclude that the phrase "for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth:" is referring only to that area which the dove covered in its search and does not refer to the land surface area of the entire globe. Also see the Appendix for more examples.
Then how about the totality of the destruction of the land animals? In verse 7:21 of the King James Translation we see the phrases "of foul", "of cattle", "of beast", and "of every creeping thing". To translate it as "among" would also be proper. This translation is from the prefixing of the Hebrew letter Beyth before the noun. And in verse 22 we also see "of all that was in the dry land, died". In order for these "of/among" phrases to be satisfied you do not have to destroy every living one of these living categories, you only have to destroy at least one or some of every kind of these categories and you will have legally satisfied the requirement in that you have destroyed "of/among" every kind but not having destroyed every living one of that particular category. And thus the flood story is interpreted to indicate that portions of each of the land animal categories were destroyed, and not total breathing land animal population over the entire globe. And the standing flood waters did not totally cover all the global land surface mountains to the tip of Mount Everest, when simple calculations indicate that there is presently not enough water on the earth to do so.
Conclusion: We have hopefully illustrated why it is preferable to interpret the Hebrew Scriptures such that the
Genesis flood record is describing a deluge that impacted all land animal types and rained on all the land surface of the globe, but was somewhat less than a global catastrophe that involved complete reconfiguration of the total surface of the earth and killed totally all breathing animals on the global land surfaces as some have interpreted.
No comments:
Post a Comment