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njlauren -> RE: Christianity and BDSM (3/7/2014 8:39:55 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SweetAnise
To RedMagic1: Good morning, according to a leading "academic claims a recently deciphered 4,000-year-old tablet from ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) reveals the striking new details about the roots of the Old Testament tale of Noah. Tells a similar story, complete with detailed instructions for building a giant round vessel known as a coracle — as well as the key instruction that animals should enter 'two by two.'The tablet went on display at the British Museum today, and soon engineers will follow the ancient instructions to see whether the vessel could actually have sailed."
"Four thousand-year-old cuneiform instructions on how to build a round "Noah's ark" have turned out to be mathematically on-target, the British Museum curator who translated the text told the International Science Times Monday. A mathematician who analyzed the instructions on how to build a round ark determined that they were 99 percent accurate, said Dr. Irving Finkel, a curator of ancient Mesopotamian artifacts who has spent decades deciphering the tablet into which the plans were pressed. The plans were written as instructions from the Mesopotamian god Enki, " (http://www.isciencetimes.com/articles/6746/20140128/noahs-ark-round-mesopotamia-flood-cuneiform-instructions-mathematically-accurate.htm)
It tells of an account of something similar in the OT. Noah's ark therefore should not be in itself irrelevant. Other may and have the right to do so. The findings have said it predates the biblical accounts that says to me that the bible is telling a story that has already occurred or may have occurred. Even Finkel was considerate to say, "The tablet "turned out to be one in a million," said Finkel. Dating from 1750 B.C., it tells the Babylonian "Story of the Flood." The Babylonian story, and its similarities to the story recounted in the Book of Genesis, were already known, but this tablet "has startling new contents," Finkel said.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2545494/Was-Noahs-Ark-ROUND-3-700-year-old-clay-tablet-reveals-boat-coracle-reeds-bitumen.html#ixzz2vHtbhvm5
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If you think about it, the region is question as I noted in another post was prone to floods, big ones, that probably caused many deaths and destruction, so it shouldn't come as a shock that people there would not only create myths, but maybe attempt to create a hedge against 'the big one', much as people today will have disaster plans, bugout bags, generators, etc. That doesn't mean Noah's ark is true, because the problem with Noah's ark is it claims everyone but Noah and his family were wiped out, and that is complete and utter BS, Noah's story says the entire earth was flooded and everyone but a few perished, and whether it happened in 1750BC or 1 million years BC according to the tale, it is myth, because no such flood happened. There would be geological evidence if the earth flooded like that, and none exists, and if every human being was wiped out other than a handful, DNA analysis 4000 years later, which is a tiny amount of time in scale, would show we all are closely related, and we aren't. Could Noah's ark have grains of truth in it..sure. Does that mean the story of Noah is true? Not by a million miles.
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