No one yet has excavated any ruins of the tower of Babel, so we don’t have any physical evidence of what it looked like. But, pretty much consensus view is that it was a tall ziggurat. “The biblical account of the Tower of Babel has been associated by modern scholars to the massive construction undertakings …
I believe it’s also correct that Egyptian, Sumerian, Chinese and perhaps Harrappan were known to exist before the time Babel was supposed to happen and certainly Babylon (with the Tower of Bab-el -Marduk) was built far later when many nations with different languages existed. As for the oldest languages in the world based on the …
Diogenes wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 3:05 am With all these creation and flood myths we are expected by the Christian faction to accept absolutely only one of them, the account in Genesis. It seems the height of ethnocentric arrogance to pronounce ONE scripture out of thousands of similar traditions that represents the ‘one true …
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But, there is another class of explanations which include the concept of syncretism: Syncretism is the merging or assimilation of several mythologies or religions, a process well known by anthropologists. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Native … cal-change Syncretism is definitely prevalent in world religions. As a matter of fact, practically all existing world religions either mention or have a …
TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 10:52 amJust a possible suggestion as to why flood stories are ubiquitous. When you read them, they don’t look much like the Flood story. Again, the question remains why stories would share similar details. “Flood stories pervade hundreds of cultures and there are striking similarities to many of the …
TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 1:58 pm Otseng, above= “Claiming that the tectonic plates is being moved by solid rock underneath is not science, rather it is an ad hoc explanation.” That is a misrepresentation of what I said. Tectonic plate movement is because of liquid rock. I said the mantle, which was a …
I don’t believe it can be contested that Jesus Christ is the most influential person in all of human history. As Christians, what we believe is Jesus Christ is our Lord and we should follow his teachings and example. And it is through the Bible that we primarily get our knowledge of his life and …
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Diogenes wrote: ↑Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:22 pm Yes indeed, the burden of proof is on the one making the claim; i.e. the resurrection of Jesus. Since this is an extraordinary claim, a claim that defies everything we know of science and the physical laws of the universe, we do indeed circle back to the …
The sedimentary strata folding is the result of the horizontal compression of the recently deposited layers. All the strata that was deposited was still wet and pliable and had not been dried and hardened yet. It is easier to account for all the erosion and folding with a muddy strata than a rock solid strata. …
To recap the arguments presented so far… I first addressed some misconceptions of the Bible: The Bible does not need to be “perfect”. Just like witnesses in a case are not all thrown out because they have conflicting details, we should likewise view the authors of the Bible as a set of witnesses in a …