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Thursday, August 15, 2019

are certain specificities in the bible confirmed by modern scholarship

There are some eye catching discoveries of the present era which dovetail rather neatly with writings in the Bible.
Increasingly it seems we are, as predicted by Malcolm Muggeridge in the 1960's, obtaining corroborated ontological evidence that there is more proven and demonstrable truth in the Book of Genesis than in the twin mathematical fantasies of Quantum and Relativity theory which have hilariously, and emperors new clothesily, become the foundational lode stones of modern science. (Quantum and Relativity are mutually incompatible by the way, they contradict each other, so one is false, and both may be.)
But is there specific truth in the Bible?
Consider the following.
In Chapter 2 of the Book of Genesis we hear of the first humans, the parents of all mankind, who are named Adam and Eve.
Current studies emanating from the University of Basel in Switzerland and the Rockefeller University in the USA assert on genetic grounds that a single male and female couple are the ancestors of all mankind.
Interesting, what!
In Chapter 7 of the Book of Genesis we hear of a a world wide flood sent by God to punish humanity.
Anthropologists of the present era note that flood myths containing identical salient details to the account of Noah and the Ark exist in cultures scattered all over the globe.
Even sceptical and atheistic scholars now accept, arising from multiple cross cultural attestations, that the flood in Genesis was a real event. Some scholars still insist it was localised to Mesopotamia or Turkey, and not world wide.
Really?
Would none of the ancient tribes who left a record of this event, have noticed it had boundaries?
Were there no tribes located at the boundaries to leave us a flood myth where it's big but not world wide?
Bogus dudes.
Nor are the sceptics and atheists in this instance able to explain why Australian aborigines, South American Indians, Chinese tribes, Africans, Greeks, Summerians, and Europeans would have flood legends agreeing on so many major points, ie that God punished all mankind with a flood, that a chosen man was warned to build a boat in order to survive, and that the same man was told to bring males and females of the animal kingdom onto the boat so that the earth would be replenished with animal as well as human life when the waters subsided.
The detail included in many of the dispersed cultural accounts that most gets my attention is when the man sends out a dove to check if the waters are receding.
When I read that detail in the different versions, I feel I'm hearing about the same event or different versions of the same originating story.
In Chapter 11 of the Book of Genesis, it is recorded that at one time the whole earth had a single language but that God scrambled it into different languages as a rebuke to humanity for its arrogance,
There is significant linguistic evidence in the present era that every language on earth descends from a single language. This evidence includes identical vocabularies existing in widely dispersed languages whose antecedents had no known historical contact with each other when the vocabularies arose. My own statement of the case is somewhere on this website..
Finally in considering whether the Bible contains truth of this extraordinary nature, let us recall the words of Nobel Prize winning scientist Arno Penzias whose discovery of back ground radiation in the night sky led him to affirm the postulation that the observable universe began from a single point:
"The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole."

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