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MrSimons Genesis, creation of everything by God in seven days. That is what I am referring to. The Old testament was first written in 1500 BC approximately.
It's an explanation, passed down from primitive man, who also had no idea of what really happened but wanted an explanation so someone made one up. Moses may have added to an existing story.
"After many excavations in the Middle East, archaeologists have found Ancient writings called "cuneiform" writings that date back all the way to 3500 B.C. Adam was still alive at that time, and so writing could have gone back even farther. So Adam could have composed his EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN!"
http://www.british-israel.ca/Genesis.htm
Still...all speculation.
Also, Methuselah being 969 years old. 969 months might be believable. The early stories, (e.g. creation stories in Genesis, Noah and the flood, etc) are not meant to be taken literally. Rather they are meant to teach us other lessons.
Here is one example of an apostle inserting his own opinion into the bible, and subverting the teachings of Jesus: "Paul, in his first letter to the Corinthians, recommends celibacy for women: "To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain single as I do. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion." (1 Cor. 7:8-9)"
"But the early Christian church had no hard and fast rule against clergy marrying and having children. Peter, a Galilee fisherman, whom the Catholic Church considers the first Pope, was married. Some Popes were the sons of Popes."
"The first written mandate requiring priests to be chaste came in AD 304. Canon 33 of the Council of Elvira stated that all"bishops, presbyters, and deacons and all other clerics" were to"abstain completely from their wives and not to have children." A short time later, in 325, the Council of Nicea, convened by Constantine, rejected a ban on priests marrying requested by Spanish clerics."
"The practice of priestly celibacy began to spread in the Western Church in the early Middle Ages. In the early 11th century Pope Benedict VIII responded to the decline in priestly morality by issuing a rule prohibiting the children of priests from inheriting property. A few decades later Pope Gregory VII issued a decree against clerical marriages."
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/696
I believe that is the most blatant example of the teachings of Jesus being overwhelmed or subverted by the opinions of the apostles Paul. His words were taken and twisted and twisted again until we arrived at a great evil. Celibate priests who are asked to live in a way almost impossible for a human.
I don't wish to continue beating these dead horses. But I felt it only polite to respond to you.
