1213 said:
The only reference I found in the entire Bible for the phrase "book of generations" is the following:
That same passage is translated in the NRSVue as:
The following passages indeed do list the descendants of Adam-- that is, a family tree. So I'm afraid I don't understand the...
The invention of written language, based on archeological evidence, appears in the time frame associated with Genesis; 5-6K years ago. My theory is written language is what allowed the human mind, to alter the natural human mind, to create the modern human mind. The Word "God" in some form, may...
Sure, any god in any fiction can become man. We have no evidence of god or god doing anything in real life.
It's not, William Dever is the most prolific archaeologist on the Bible:
THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM
Q: According to the Bible, the first person to form a covenant with God is Abraham. He is...
Revelations may quite well be the only original book of the New Testament, presented as was originally written. Its symbolism is unlike the rest of the New Testament. The rest of the New Testament, written in the 2nd century, was more about the positive messaging of Jesus from the POV of...
This is a strange strange post ... first you fail to grasp that we are talking about the religious beliefs people living in and around Canaan in 1800 BC if we are talking Abe .. ~1000 BC if we are talking the Israelites at the height of empire.
This is not about the religious beliefs of...
Well, Revelations shows that the 7 angels are the "7 eyes (watchers), which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out to all the earth" (Revelation 5:6). Revelation 1:20 reveals that the 7 angels are the angels of the 7 churches, which apparently, they (churches) are all in bad shape, except for...
A per the subject of the thread the Pentateuch is hard to sell in any form as historical set of books.
The following is response to Norman Geisler;'s argument for Old Earth Creationism. Old Earth Creationism is an attempt to synchronize Scientific evidence. It pretty comprehensive on the faulty...
If you are going to claim the dating method, then you have backup your claims with evidence that the dating is unreliable.
without evidence, you are just expressing personal opinion of the dating being wrong.
in most case, when dating anything older than 50,000 years, radiologists would either...
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C. Bonner reminded us in 1937 that “…no part of the original writings, Hebrew of Aramaic, which entered into the composite work, has survived in the original Language. The Greek version, in which the church read enoch , also disappeared.” (Campbell Bonner, The Last Chapters of...
Genesis as Dialogue: A Literary, Historical, and Theological Commentary
Thomas L. Brodie
(3) Genesis illustrates intertextuality; its sources include extant documents, especially from Mesopotamia, from Judea (Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel), and from western Asia (Homer's Odyssey).
Enuma...
Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. 24Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
One of the consequences of the Jehovah sects creating their own doctrine and rewriting parts of the Bible is that they had to go back and horribly reinterpret parts...
The Hebrew word often translated as heaven does not necessarily mean spiritual heaven. And because the Bible says no man ascended to heaven except for the one who came down from heaven, well, that helps to understand more about why Elijah could not possibly have gone to dwell in the spiritual...
Taken to heaven and then died. :(
You have it backwards. 1 Cor. 15:36
Just like you have these.
(Hebrews 6:19, 20) 19 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, both sure and firm, and it enters in within the curtain, 20 where a forerunner forerunners Elijah and Enoch has entered in our...
LoL! I quoted the scriptures, but the JW cult programed you to twist them.
Enoch and Elijah did effectively die the instant that they were translated to heaven. 2 Kings 2 Genesis5:23-25
The spirit birth has always been available to Gods children. John 3:10
Jesus has ALWAYS been the way! John...
Correct, the translation of one to the next life without the ordinary process of death would require the instantaneous dematerialization of the mortal body and without the sleep of death prior to a dispensational resurrection. Elijiah, Enoch and others not known went directly to the Mansion worlds.
Thanks for bringing it up. Enoch likely did not experience the pangs of death. This does not mean he was taken to heavenly life. It appears that, as in the case of Moses’ body, God must have disposed of Enoch’s body, for “he was nowhere to be found.”
Genesis5:24 says in the case of Enoch, that...
IOW Noah was about 40 years old when his sister Naamah became pregnant (Gen 5:32).
Or are you claiming that Noah became pregnant at about 40 years old.
The Bible says Noah had three sons AFTER he was 500 years old. Not when he was 500 years old, or 500 months old. It also doesn't say the three sons were triplets.
Genesis5:32.