any takers?
PS-If you really want to know the answer, I'll post Carl Sagan's writings on the subject.
WAS MANNA REALLY COMET DUST?
by rebel8 7 Replies latest jw friends
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rebel8
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Nathan Natas
I'm pretty sure the story is camel dung.
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mkr32208
How about the whole story was made up out of whole cloth?
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Elsewhere
Please tell me that Carl Sagan had nothing to do with this idea!
Eat "comet dust"? Try to imagine eating a mixture of powder charcoal and ice. That is what "comet dust" is like.
There is also the fact that we experience "comet dust" several times a year: It's call a Meteor Shower, and no, none of the "dust" ever reaches the ground - it is vaporized in the atmosphere.
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orangefatcat
No manna wasn't from the dust of the ground. According to one Bible commentator, Dr. Henry H. Halley says that it may have been a direct creation from God or it was the result of a natural product the miraculously multiplied. It fell with the dew each night and it looked like a corriander seed. It appeared as small flakes used to make the bread. The manna was ground in mills or beat in mortars, then boiled in pots and cakes were made of it and it was looked like a wafer and they would have honey with it. Each person was allowed a (omer) around two quarts. On the sixth day they had enough to last over the Sabbath.
The manna began one month after they left Egypt and was given daily throughout the forty years until they crossed over the Jordan to the promised land. It ceased as quickly as it appeared. (Numbers 11:6-9 Joshua 5:12)
Jesus regarded manna as forshadowing Himself ( John 6:31-58)
Therefore my conclusion is this it is not comet dust. or fairy dust or dust bunnies.
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Orangefatcat
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rebel8
In his book "Broca's Brain", he critiques a book (Worlds in Collision) that claims all biblical events really happened, they just had scientific explanations.
Incidentally, I bought this book because someone on this forum mentioned it a few years ago. He slams wts for being false prophets, which is pretty cool because wts quotes him in their litterature (I think).
Worlds in Collision says manna is comet dust.
Sagan says:
-comet dust isn't made out of the stuff that would cause worms to grow in it overnight
-comet dust isn't edible, or at least it wouldn't sustain a few hundred thousand human beings for 40 years
-the bible says it fell daily, so a comet would have had to make a new pass over the desert each day for 40 years
-the amount of manna needed to feed all those people for that length of time would have covered the entire Earth and left traces; it also would have fallen on other planets and left a trace there
-this amount of dust could only be produced by a comet larger than some planets
etc.....do I really need to go on? It's bunk. -
Nathan Natas
...and let's not forget that those Israelites were so stealthy, had such impeccable ninja-like skills, that in spite of the fact that billions and billions of them wandered through the desert for hundreds of thousands of years, ABSOLUTELY NO TRACE of thier passage can be found today!
No garbage, no burial grounds, no roadside falafel stands, no gas stations, no used-camel lots, nothing. It's almost as though IT NEVER HAPPENED AT ALL.
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rebel8
rly? wow, my faith is totally shattered now, Nathan. ;)