Boro Nut

Ezekiel 21:32 Prophesies that Ammonites will not be remembered any more. Yet the cliffs around here are jam-full with millions of their fossilised remains, and the local souvenir shops full of polished specimens. How wrong can you get.

Boro Nut

However, I feel it is only fair to point out that prophesying that Ammonites would not be remembered at a time when it hadn't been discovered that they had already been and gone in the first place is quite an impressive feat in itself.

jre

One of my favourites is from Donald Morgan's Biblical Absurdities article here on II:

Dolphin

Amlekites I think you mean. But I agree with jre, it is easly the funniest contradiction there is

Echo

This is what happens when you get your prophecies from a man who sees giant floating wheels with eyeballs.



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The Guy

The Ezekiel passages does indeed refer to the Ammonites, who shouldn't be confused with the Amalekites.

Marduk

"This is what happens when you get your prophecies from a man who sees giant floating wheels with eyeballs"

It was a spaceship, he had been abducted and 'probed' he was still pretty dazed.

emotional

Must you believe EVERYTHING Erich von Däniken says? As punishment you are condemned to dine with Ezekiel

Pantera

Well, he'd been eating dung sandwiches, so you'd expect him to be a little off-colour.

Boro Nut

No. Amlekites are formed by accretion of minerals in solution, not by fossilisation of once living organisms.

I've forgotten what the original topic was, so maybe there is something in it after all.