Creationism - lets get the facts straight.?

Question

Several millenia ago Joshua stormed the city of Jerico - a Sumar city - as described in the bible - Sumarians. When he destroyed the walls he told everyone not to sack the city. Very nice of him. Those several millenia later, less a couple of decades, they discovered this Sumarian city and more than 30,000 clay tablets. When they translated some of these they discovered a series that described a 7 day fiesta celebrating god's creation of the universe. The bible had not been written down at that time and was only a verbal process. A couple of hundred years later they did write it down and instead of 7 days of celebration of the creation of the earth it comes out as 7 days for the creation of the earth. Should you be interested there are many other stories that have been translated from the Sumarian tablets that are biblical tales yet predate the written bible by several hundred years. Get a clue.

It is interesting that those who dislike this question quote the bible which may be nothing more than a distilled version of the Sumarian tablets. And then there are those that take a minor point to denigrate the entire passage. Yes, THE BIBLE says he rested on the 7th day. What did it origonally say before the writers of the bible got their hands on it.

Answer 1

There is considerable evidence -- archaeological, biological, geological, astronomical, cosmological, paleontological -- that shows the biblical account of creation is wrong.

There is *no* evidence in any scientific discipline that shows the biblical account of creation is correct.

Your point above is just one of many that show how biblical myths came from other cultures -- there are also mythical stories of a garden of "eden", a great flood and a man who built a boat to ride it out, and many others that existed in other cultures (and were written down) in Mesopotamia that pre-date the hebrew stories by centuries or even millenia. Thinking people, even religious scholars, understand and accept that the biblical stories are just myths and don't ascribe any absolute truth to them, or even attribute them to the hebrews. Non-thinking people, well, don't think, research, understand -- they just spout dogma.

Answer 2

Yes please, get the facts straight:
You are confusing Samar of Samaria like in Samaritan, in old Palestine or Philistine, who were the Philistines or Philisteans of the Bible
With the Mesopotamian (in actual Iraq, I use this name because Sumner was also between the Tigris and the Euphrates i.e. between rivers/ meso potamos) city of Sumner from Sumeria and the Sumerians

It was in Sumner, Ur , Babel and many other places they found the clay tablets but where they found more clay pieces was in Sumner , which they could not explain the use: Then they understood they were used for accounting and marketing. Today the call them Tokens

Hebrew, per se . is a quite "modern language" the oldest Hebrew texts are from circa 1000 BC

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Answer 3

If you are trying to knock the Bible, you can't. The Bible does NOT say the earth was created in six or even seven days. If you will look closely at Gen. 1:2, you will see that the earth was already in existence BEFORE the first creative day started. The six "days" were huge time periods in which God prepared the EARTH for human habitation. They had nothing to do with the making of the earth. As far as we know, the earth could have been around for millions or billions of years before the first creative day started.

Answer 4

So let me get this straight...
You use the Bible to verify the existence of Jerico, and why the stone tablets were still in a defeated city.
Then, you say the city has information that says the Bible is wrong.

Do you see the error here? You cannot use information in the Bible to verify a source that says the Bible is wrong. Going down that road only serves to show your source (the city) is not verified.

Answer 5

Is this a question?

The Creationist/Evolution argument is not about religion. It is disturbing that so many treat it as such. Evolution, as a theory, has been backed up time and again by scientific experiments and tests. Creationism is not a theory, but a story passed down through the generations and eventually written down. Simply finding it written down in Sumar does not validate it as a theory.

Answer 6

Jericho was not Sumerian, it was Canaanite. Summar was much farther to the east. And Joshua attacked it after the death of Moses who wrote the Pentateuch, so I think yoou are wrong on some of your facts. Jesus himself confirmed in the New Testament that Moses WROTE the law.
Personally I am more inclined to accept the Bible and think that those who introduced the idea of a 7 day feast were the ones that are wrong.

Answer 7

Actually friend, the truth is that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible and he predates Josh and the destruction of Jericho. And as for Jericho it was eventually rebuilt at the cost of the man's first born and his young sons. Just as Joshua proclaimed.

Answer 8

Interesting question. There are so many "myths" that have such similarities, can it be "just a coincidence"??
What is it that makes a legend, legend? How does a myth become a myth? Just how old and disused must a fact be for it to be relegated to the category of a fairy tale?

Answer 9

There are several seven day holidays in the Bible such as Passover and Succot. Its far more likely its referring to these.


leave the history work to the Historians

Answer 10

Read Galatians 1: 6-9