by badboy 147 Replies latest jw friends
Schizm, let me be the first to ask the obvious...did Rome hold jurisdiction over China? The Maya, Zapotec, Teotihuacán civilizations? India? ect., etc.? -- M.J.
Let me be the first to ask you, M.J.: Did China and those civilizations that you list exist at the particular time when Rome ruled the world of its day?
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Oh my Lord.
I hope, Schizm, that wasn't a real question? You need to do a little research. These cultures such China and the Olmec, Toltec, Aztec, Maya, Inca, not too mention the North American plains and pueblo cultures such as the Anasazi, and the pacific island cultures were all flourishing before the Roman Empire was ever a dream. At the height of the Roman Empire, there still lived vast numbers of tribes and lands and people from the Asiatic tribes, the Norsemen, Rus, Asian Countries, Sub-Saharan cutures of Africa, the Pacific Island nations and of course the Americas that either didn't even know of Rome or didn't care one flip.
The point of the scriptures is from the viewpoint of its writers. Thus in the Bible when it talks about the inhabited nations or when it talks about the 'good news being spread to all the inhabited nations" before the end (presumably the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.) comes, or even when it speaks about Noah's flood covering all of the Earth or wiping out all of the people and animals, etc. - all of these things should be understood to be limited to specific locality and not in fact to a global dimension. This was the "known" world to and for those Bible writers, they had no knowledge of the unknown parts of it or they would have included or dealt with such in their writing.
-Eduardo Leaton Jr., Esq.
Let me be the first to ask you, M.J.: Did China and those civilizations that you list exist at the particular time when Rome ruled the world of its day?
Can we just confirm you are joking, right?
Please also see the scriptures cited in my post below:
What's wrong with putting "the whole world" in context of the time? This was the Roman "known world" about the time Peter made his speech:
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/Ancient%20Web%20Pages/116B.html
Eduardo,
I'd like for you to try focusing your eyes on the following verse:
38 and into whose hand he has given, wherever the sons of mankind are dwelling, the beasts of the field and the winged creatures of the heavens, and whom he has made ruler over all of them, you yourself are the head of gold. -- Daniel 2:38.
What does "wherever the sons of mankind are dwelling" mean to you? Do you think that takes in the whole of mankind, or only part of mankind?
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How about some scholarly proof there Schizm instead of interpreting a Bible verse. After all if the Bible is the truth then scholarship should confirm your claim right?
How about some scholarly proof there Schizm instead of interpreting a Bible verse. After all if the Bible is the truth then scholarship should confirm your claim right?
I didn't offer an interpretation of the verse, I merely quoted it word for word.
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Let me be the first to ask you, M.J.: Did China and those civilizations that you list exist at the particular time when Rome ruled the world of its day?
I just freakin KNEW Schizm used mushrooms....I KNEW it!!!!!!
Gumby...LMAO!
Let me be the first to ask you, M.J.: Did China and those civilizations that you list exist at the particular time when Rome ruled the world of its day? -- Schizm.I just freakin KNEW Schizm used mushrooms....I KNEW it!!!!!!Gumby...LMAO!
As with a few others, Gumby, you too should be careful what you read into my tricky little question directed at M.J. Who knows, maybe he'll somehow find his way back into this thread, and if he does I plan on having him and you for supper.
BTW, instead of just being a smart-ass, why don't you try answering the question I asked Eduardo?
I bet you're not man enough to deal with that question! Want to bet?
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