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06-07-2011, 11:01 AM | #121 |
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Rhutchin is ignoring the fact that the Mesopotamian king lists ascribe fantastically long lives to people before the flood. Like much in the Old Testament, the Hebrews copied this idea from someone else.
Enoch lived for 365 years. Can anyone seriously doubt that this is a symbolic number? |
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Now stop dodging the question and answer this: if it went on to say that Abram lived 80 years and begat Shem, that it would be reasonable to conclude that we are now talking about a time roughly 150 years after the birth of Terah? |
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OK. Symbolic of what? |
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So, would you conclude that Abram was born to Terah when Terah was 70? Sure reasonable according to our western way of thinking. Not necessarily true or reasonable according to the Hebrew way of thinking. |
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You are assuming the biblical accounts are true when that has not been accepted. Whether the bible says the earth is 6,000 or 15,000 years old has nothing whatsoever to do with the literal mountains of evidence that thay are both wrong. |
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2. If I can prove my claim that there is a prophesy in the bible about JFK surrviving his assassination and the still alive today, why would you still believe it desite evidence of the film of his death funernal and burial? 3. why is any claim in the bible like Noah 's Ark true? |
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