by booby 3 Replies latest jw experiences
The 2002 Watchtower reference says that Cain and Abel could see the cherubs at Eden's gateway. It's less obvious whether Cain and Abel could see other angels who were stationed elsewhere, according to the 1959 Watchtower.
this from an e-mail website shows clearly where accurate info from thousands of years ago and prior to a global flood can come from. Yea!! GB.
I doubt it was an original thought from WT writers. Like most everything they write it's probably plagerized from somewhere else.
The First Book of Adam and Eve details the life and times of Adam and Eve after they were expelled from the garden to the time that Cain kills his brother Abel. It tells of Adam and Eve's first dwelling - the Cave of Treasures; their trials and temptations; Satan's many apparitions to them; the birth of Cain, Abel, and their twin sisters; and Cain's love for his beautiful twin sister, Luluwa, whom Adam and Eve wished to join to Abel.
This book is considered by many scholars to be part of the "Pseudepigrapha" (soo-duh-pig-ruh-fuh). The "Pseudepigrapha" is a collection of historical biblical works that are considered to be fiction. Because of that stigma, this book was not included in the compilation of the Holy Bible. This book is a written history of what happened in the days of Adam and Eve after they were cast out of the garden. Although considered to be pseudepigraphic by some, it carries significant meaning and insight into events of that time. It is doubtful that these writings could have survived all the many centuries if there were no substance to them.
http://www.hiddenmysteries.com/freebook/adameve/adamevetoc.html
The Syriac work, though called the "Cave of Treasures," tells us very little about the real Cave, which was situated in the side of a mountain below Paradise, and nothing about the manner of life which Adam and Eve lived in it. But in the "Book of Adam and Eve" the whole of the first main section is devoted to the particulars of the physical Cave.
WTF??? and why did god invent and show the sword there, but that is not my original thought....someone else did it here and i like it.....man sure made good use of gods design though...........oompa
I don't think any of it is reliable. I could invent something based on any Scripture in the Old Testament, fill in the gaps with complete fiction, and then publish a book on it. If I fraudulently label the book as fact, and it is good enough as a story, pretty soon people are going to believe it. And it will eventually get legend status, at which point people will believe it as fact. Hey, the Washtowel attempted that last summer with their drama--too bad it was so poorly executed that no one is going to believe it.
What is wrong is when they plagiarize it and take it as their own. If the work is on the public domain, they are allowed to use it as their own without worrying about lawsuits. However, if they are using it as their own work, and then forcing millions of people to stake their lives and salvation on its validity, that is much more serious whether the work is on the public domain or not. If the original was fiction, and they are staking lives on it, people are either going to die because of it or live stagnant lives because of their fraud.
I never did believe in the Genesis fairytale after leaving the Washtowel. All it is is a story that someone made up. If the whole thing is fiction, and someone passed it as truth, it was fraud. Otherwise, it was just a story that was told so many times that people began to believe it. Another Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. They might as well believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
