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The bible contains the written history of the Jewish people and the sayings and teachings of their prophets in the Old Testament, and the edited and altered story of the life and death of Jesus Christ in the New Testament, based on the interpreted and re-written letters of the apostles, gathered and collated approximately 78 years after the death of Jesus Christ. We always call stories of creation, "Creation Myths" for the simple reason that nobody human was alive when the world was made.
These stories have been handed down for at least 5000 years, and there is no way to vet them. Creation myths will always be colored by personal belief. The oldest creation myth on the planet was inscribed by the ancient Sumerians, and it involved almost human primitives who were enslaved to mine gold by Aliens! 🤭
The prophets were holy men who lived in the desert, usually like wild animals, dressed in skins, eating locusts, (bugs), and honey, and probably shrooms...🤣. JK!!! Possible, though...🤭
The apostle John, wrote the book of Revelations, and he was certainly tripping when he wrote that. 🤭 Again, JK!!!
I don't mean to belittle the prophets, or any of those prophecies. Just saying that God might be able to tell us the future, but the translation of God's voice from inside a prophet's mind becomes a human, and therefore fallible thing, and the interpretation of the interpretation by another human thereof is sometimes or usually flawed. It's like playing the game telephone.
As for that quote by Mark Twain, he didn't know what he didn't know. Lots of archaeologists could teach Mr. Twain nowadays...if only he weren't dead...😁Particularly the snakes.
"The magicians of Egypt in modern times have long been celebrated adepts in charming serpents; and particularly by pressing the nape of the neck they throw them into a kind of catalepsy, which renders them stiff and immoveable, thus seeming to change them into a rod. They conceal the serpent about their person, and by acts of legerdemain produce it from their dress, stiff and straight as a rod. Just the same trick was played off by their ancient predecessors…. [A]nd so it appears they succeeded by their “enchantments” in practicing an illusion on the senses (2002, 1:295, Exodus 7:11-14)."
"The idea that a skilled magician could use a snake in such a way is no novel concept in the world of magic tricks. Walter Gibson, in his book Secrets of Magic, states that there is a certain type of snake that can be made motionless by applying pressure just below its head. Gibson also notes that the particular species of snake suitable for this stunt happens to be the naja haje (or haja), otherwise known as the Egyptian Cobra (as cited in “Case Studies,” n.d.)."
https://apologeticspress.org/egyptian-magicians-snakes-and-rods-1704/
The "Burning Bush" was no doubt a great wonder to Moses, who lived his whole life in the warmth of the climate of the desert. He had never before climbed a mountain to height where the cold of the mountaintop had turned leaves into fall colors. But I believe that he DID commune with the Lord our God.
When Jesus hopped out of the boat in Gallilee, he did appear to be walking on water, but was he, in fact, walking on a coral shelf just below the surface? We will never know.
Some of the wonders written in the bible were no doubt the odd interpretations given to primitive and somewhat ignorant people. For example, even though Jesus supposedly drove a pair of demons into a herd of pigs, the Jewish people did not eat pork long before that time. The "demon" that was often encountered in a slice of undercooked pork was called trichinosis, (caused by parasitic roundworms in any animal that eats meat). The "demons" in pork, included symptoms such as high fever, delirium, horrible stomach cramps, and the swelling of the face, (which might cause a person to appear demonic). Eventually, trichinosis can cause the brain to swell.
Well, I won't go on and on. (I could! 🤣). Great Post!
These stories have been handed down for at least 5000 years, and there is no way to vet them. Creation myths will always be colored by personal belief. The oldest creation myth on the planet was inscribed by the ancient Sumerians, and it involved almost human primitives who were enslaved to mine gold by Aliens! 🤭
The prophets were holy men who lived in the desert, usually like wild animals, dressed in skins, eating locusts, (bugs), and honey, and probably shrooms...🤣. JK!!! Possible, though...🤭
The apostle John, wrote the book of Revelations, and he was certainly tripping when he wrote that. 🤭 Again, JK!!!
I don't mean to belittle the prophets, or any of those prophecies. Just saying that God might be able to tell us the future, but the translation of God's voice from inside a prophet's mind becomes a human, and therefore fallible thing, and the interpretation of the interpretation by another human thereof is sometimes or usually flawed. It's like playing the game telephone.
As for that quote by Mark Twain, he didn't know what he didn't know. Lots of archaeologists could teach Mr. Twain nowadays...if only he weren't dead...😁Particularly the snakes.
"The magicians of Egypt in modern times have long been celebrated adepts in charming serpents; and particularly by pressing the nape of the neck they throw them into a kind of catalepsy, which renders them stiff and immoveable, thus seeming to change them into a rod. They conceal the serpent about their person, and by acts of legerdemain produce it from their dress, stiff and straight as a rod. Just the same trick was played off by their ancient predecessors…. [A]nd so it appears they succeeded by their “enchantments” in practicing an illusion on the senses (2002, 1:295, Exodus 7:11-14)."
"The idea that a skilled magician could use a snake in such a way is no novel concept in the world of magic tricks. Walter Gibson, in his book Secrets of Magic, states that there is a certain type of snake that can be made motionless by applying pressure just below its head. Gibson also notes that the particular species of snake suitable for this stunt happens to be the naja haje (or haja), otherwise known as the Egyptian Cobra (as cited in “Case Studies,” n.d.)."
https://apologeticspress.org/egyptian-magicians-snakes-and-rods-1704/
The "Burning Bush" was no doubt a great wonder to Moses, who lived his whole life in the warmth of the climate of the desert. He had never before climbed a mountain to height where the cold of the mountaintop had turned leaves into fall colors. But I believe that he DID commune with the Lord our God.
When Jesus hopped out of the boat in Gallilee, he did appear to be walking on water, but was he, in fact, walking on a coral shelf just below the surface? We will never know.
Some of the wonders written in the bible were no doubt the odd interpretations given to primitive and somewhat ignorant people. For example, even though Jesus supposedly drove a pair of demons into a herd of pigs, the Jewish people did not eat pork long before that time. The "demon" that was often encountered in a slice of undercooked pork was called trichinosis, (caused by parasitic roundworms in any animal that eats meat). The "demons" in pork, included symptoms such as high fever, delirium, horrible stomach cramps, and the swelling of the face, (which might cause a person to appear demonic). Eventually, trichinosis can cause the brain to swell.
Well, I won't go on and on. (I could! 🤣). Great Post!
