A cooworker of mine asked me this question and I was not able to answer it, so I come to all the faithfull to give me an inside of why such buldings are not mention. Thank you ahead of times.
2007-07-26 07:25:23 · 24 answers · asked by MexicaliDad 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't like to quote anything from the Bible or the Quran, because some people take it as if I was preaching, and I am not any religion. I am just answering your question. and there it goes.
The Bible mentioned how the Jewish people were the one who built, guess what! the Pyramid, and how they were treated unfairly, and how they had to leave everything to find their new home led by Moses. That is in the Bible.
"In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt." Isaiah 19:19, 20
The Pit - “Chamber of the Ordeal”* (G)
Its sides and ceiling are finished, but its floor is unfinished and extremely uneven. Thus it is “bottomless.” Job 33:24; Acts 24:15
Horizontal Passage (H)
6/7 of its length is cramped and low, and the last 1/7 has room for a man to walk upright. Isa. 26:9, 35:1-10
One remarkable prophetic sign that is confirmed by Scripture is found in our Isaiah 19 theme text pointing to the Great Pyramid in Egypt. It is one of the most dramatic signs given in Scripture, yet it is overlooked by most students of the Bible because of preconceived ideas as to the Pyramid’s purpose, origin and meaning.
hope that helped. There are more, but for now that would be enough. You can answer your friend with these. If you wish! :)
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2007-07-26 07:38:10 · answer #1 · answered by Bravado Guru 5 · 9⤊ 2⤋
B/c the Jews were not really slaves. The Egyptians built the Pyramids and the Great Sphinx. History, from the Torah, implies that the Jews were more of a mercenary nomad tribe that hooked up w/ Egypt, a kind of "We'll defend the north if you give us jobs."
2007-07-26 14:38:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The only building described in the Bible is the temple if I remember correctly (because God was giving building instructions).
There's no particular reason WHY the early writers of the bible would have harped on other cultures' tombs.
2007-07-26 14:39:33 · answer #3 · answered by LX V 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
With that, why don't they mention the dinosaurs? Oh yeah Christians think the devil put them there to test our faith. Why don't they mention the Egyptian book of the dead, I mean the entire ten commandments came from it(Egypt ion book of the dead was written 500 years before Moses supposedly went to the top of the mountain), why don't they mention that more than 5 other saviors of other religions, that were written about, hundreds of years before the thought of Christianity have the same backgrounds--born DEC 25th, had 12 disciples, died and three days later resurrected etc........ hmmmmmmm
2007-07-26 14:36:49 · answer #4 · answered by jpnkc74 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Actually it does. Egypt was a part of one region back then and it was called Ethiopia. Ethiopia along with Cush is mentioned several times in the Bible.
2007-07-26 14:50:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably because Egyptian culture wasn't as influential on the writers of the Bible as was the Greek culture as evidenced by the many references to Greek locations, gods and structures.
Acts 19:27 "There is danger not only that our trade will lose its good name, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis..."
Acts 17:22 (KJV) "Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens..."
This shouldn't be a considered a slight of Egyptian culture, which is fascinating in its own right.
2007-07-26 14:30:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Why does it not mention the pharos lighthouse, the collosus of rhodes,Alexander the great or other historical facts or persons? The bible mentions mainly what is pertinent to our salvation and the pyramids play no such role.
2007-07-26 14:30:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Why would the Bible mention them? It's a story of the experiences of a people, not a tour guide.
If you're asking about pyramids because of the old image of Hebrew slaves building them, that's a fallacy. It was an honor to work on the pyramids, because your soul was more likely to be taken into the afterlife by the pharoah for whom the pyramid was built. Most workers were volunteers. HEbrew slaves worked on other projects or, probably more often, were domestic slaves.
2007-07-26 14:30:04 · answer #8 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Despite what was in the Chuck Heston film, the Jews, although slaves at the time, did not work on the pyramids. They were not allowed to. According to the beliefs of Egypt at the time, anyone who worked on them got a free pass to their version of heaven.
2007-07-26 14:33:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
There are a lot of things the bible does not mention. It's not a history book, it's a collection of stories.
2007-07-26 14:29:09 · answer #10 · answered by Spencer Y 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋