The Genesis account again proved WRONG

by opusdei1972 17 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  opusdei1972

  According to the Watchtower's Insight Encyclopedia :

  
  The catastrophic destruction of men and animals by an overwhelming flood in the days of Noah, 2370 B.C.E. This greatest cataclysm in all human history was sent by Jehovah because wicked men had filled the earth with violence. The survival of righteous Noah and his family, eight souls in all, together with selected animals, was by means of a huge ark, or chest.—Ge 6:9–9:19; 1Pe 3:20;
  
  So, the Bible book of Genesis says in chapter 10 (according to the New International Version):
  
  This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood....The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.....Egypt was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.
  
  Therefore, the book of Genesis tells us that the egyptians became to exist after the Flood, after 2370 BC. Nevertheless, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo recently began putting on display the country's oldest papyruses, which date back 4500 years (2500 BC), detailing the daily life of the pyramid-builders. So, this papyrus is somewhat older than the biblical Flood. The earliest known evidence of Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions appeared during the predynastic period on Naqada III pottery vessels, dated to about 3200 BC. But this should'nt be a suprise, because due to the evidence of rock carvings along the Nile terraces and in desert oases, in the 10th millennium BC, a culture of hunter-gatherers and fishers was replaced by a grain-grinding culture. Climate changes or overgrazing around 8000 BC began to desiccate the pastoral lands of Egypt, forming the Sahara. Early tribal peoples migrated to the Nile River where they developed a settled agricultural economy and more centralised society. So, how could ancient egyptians exist around 8000 BC, if the Bible says that there were no egyptians before 2370 BC ?
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt

  http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/07/egypts-oldest-papyrus-reveals-lives-of-pyramid-builders/
  
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  Half banana

  Jehovah's Witnesses all live happily together at a teddy bear's picnic on fantasy island.
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  disposable hero of hypocrisy

  Thanks for posting, interesting stuff...
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  sir82

  the Egyptian Museum in Cairo recently began putting on display the country's oldest papyruses, which date back 4500 years (2500 BC), detailing the daily life of the pyramid-builders.

  Typical JW answer:

  Scientific dating methods are notoriously inaccurate, especially when dating things prior to the flood. The dissolution of the water canopy changed the way [carbon-14 degrades, or whatever other dating method is used], So if that dating reveals any date prior to the flood, clearly the dating method is flawed.

  JW answer, option B:

  Before the flood, there were people living in the area known today as "Egypt". They built pyramids, wrote on papyrus, etc. Those people were of course destroyed in the flood. The account in Genesis 10 explains the origin of the post-flood nation known as "Egypt" in Moses' time.

  JW response, after giving answer A or B:

  So are you saying that you believe science over the Bible? Where is your faith? You're not turning apostate, are you?
  
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  Vidiot

  @ sir82...

  Don't forget, there's also an insidious, silent conspiracy across the entire scientific community to supress any evidence that supports the Biblical account. :wink:
  
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  DesirousOfChange

  You know you cannot trust that "dating stuff" they use.

  Doc
  
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  stuckinarut2

  And of course "a worldwide flood" really only means a flood of the "populated world" of the land where the bible characters lived...ie a small part of the middle east area...

  Did the bible writer know for SURE that Europe, Africa, Australia, Antarctica etc were "flooded"?

  And the bible even shows that the rest of the world was not inhabited until AFTER the supposed "tower of Babel" event where people spread far and wide...

  So why flood the rest of the uninhabited earth? To kill animals perhaps?
  
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  Crazyguy

  I would love to get pictures of all the places and cities that were around before the flood. Pictures of the pyramids, temples, zigarits, cities etc and then show the same places after the flood. And of course nothing would be different in the pictures.
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  Sevan

  This is what I think:

  There was factually, scientifically no worldwide flood. See jwfacts.com for an excellent analysis of this. There very well could have been a very bad local flood, which is most likely what the Noah account refers to.

  The Bible is not near as literal as modern fundamentalism makes it out to be. Some of the stories are most likely allegories to teach a lesson. There is no way the dates and ages in the Bible are literally accurate as humans and human civilizations have been around a lot longer than 6,000 years according to all archaeological and scientific research.
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  Disillusioned JW

  I found Christian books (including Old Bibles in their study helps) published before carbon dating and other radiometric dating were invented, in which the books gave a date of earlier than 2370 B.C.E. (B.C.) for some aspect of Egyptian civilization. As result, even before radiometric dating scholars knew some aspect of Egyptian civilization (such a particular kingdom or dynasty, I think) existed before 2370 B.C.E.