Gumbys Weekend Bible Study - Noah and Stuff

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  Narkissos

  Side notes about the 120 years:

  In the Book of Jubilees V,6ff, the sentence seems to be applied to the giants rather than ordinary men, and disconnected from the Flood:

  1. And against the angels whom He had sent upon the earth, He was exceedingly wroth, and He gave commandment to root them out of all their dominion, and He bade us to bind them in the depths of the earth, and behold they are bound in the midst of them, and are (kept) separate. And against their sons went forth a command from before His face that they should be smitten with the sword, and be removed from under heaven. And He said 'My spirit shall not always abide on man; for they also are flesh and their days shall be one hundred and twenty years'. And He sent His sword into their midst that each should slay his neighbour, and they began to slay each other till they all fell by the sword and were destroyed from the earth. And their fathers were witnesses (of their destruction), and after this they were bound in the depths of the earth for ever, until the day of the great condemnation, when judgment is executed on all those who have corrupted their ways and their works before the Lord. And He destroyed all from their places, and there was not left one of them whom He judged not according to all their wickedness.

  In the Book of Biblical Antiquities IX,8, the connection with Moses' lifespan is explicit:

  I the Lord will kindle for him my lamp to dwell in him, and will show him my covenant which no man hath seen, and manifest to him my great excellency, and my justice and judgments and will shine for him a perpetual light. For in ancient days I thought of him, saying: My spirit shall not be a mediator among these men for ever, for they are flesh, and their days shall be 120 years.
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  IP_SEC

  A full-grown Asian elephant eats approximately 150-200 pounds of food and drinks 30-50 gallons of water every day.

  Noah's god created and named all of the stars in the universe. Such power and wisdom no doubt gives him great insight into the physiology of the animal kingdom. He could have easly used such vast knowledge to cause the animals to enter a sort of suspended animation there by reducing or eleminating their need for food or sex. It is also reasonalbe that anti matter might have been used to destroy the vast amounts of waste produced on the ark.

  IP (Hoping to get a job in the writing department of gumby's sunday school) Sec
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  New Worldly Translation

  This thread has jogged my memory about something. I'm sure I remember a societies illustration showing dinosuars in the background with Noah and the ark in the foreground before the flood. It might have been the old orange Paradise book. The implication of the drawing is that God destroyed the dinosaurs with the flood.

  Did I imagine that or does that ring a bell with anyone?
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  IP_SEC

  NWT I dont remember an illustartion exactly like that but on the inside cover of the PLPR book you speak of there is a seaserpent, some type of sauropod, and a pterodactyl illustrated along with some bible chars which would have certainly indicated to me that the dinos died off at the flood. Those illustartions are very small and shadow art.
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  Satanus

  *** w73 7/15 p. 447 Questions from Readers ***

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  When did God create dinosaurs, and when did they become extinct??U.S.A.

  The Bible does not provide specific answers to this question. According to the Genesis account, animals were created during the fifth and sixth creative periods or ?days.? If the Hebrew expression translated "great sea monsters" [Hebrew, tan·ni·nim´] includes dinosaurs, which often inhabited swampy, watery areas, this would mean that dinosaurs were created on the fifth "day." (Gen. 1:21) We do not know whether they continued to exist until man was created (toward the close of the sixth "day"). At the very latest it seems likely that they must have disappeared off the earth at the time of the flood of Noah?s day. Dinosaurs were reptiles, and some kinds of dinosaurs bear strong resemblance structurally and otherwise to lizards (sauros is, in fact, the Greek word for "lizard"; saura in Leviticus 11:29, LXX). Not all types of dinosaurs were of such gigantic size. Hence, even if they had survived till the Flood, this would not have required taking pairs of the mammoth varieties into the ark. Other smaller members of the particular family or "kind" to which these belonged would have sufficed to fulfill the divine command.?Gen. 6:19, 20; 7:14.
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  Satanus

  Not all types of dinosaurs were of such gigantic size. Hence, even if they had survived till the Flood, this would not have required taking pairs of the mammoth varieties into the ark. Other smaller members of the particular family or "kind" to which these belonged would have sufficed to fulfill the divine command.

  That means that if the dinosaur kind survived untill the flood, then we still have dinosaurs existing on the earth today. Amazing, ain't it? When will the wt reveal the dinos?

  S
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  gumby

  You doubters and scoffers who have mocked God Almighty will oneday pay!! If our god can create the universe.....you DOUBT that he cannot accomodate, feed, excercise, and clean-up after the animals that were on an Ark? If he can deluge the earth with water simply at his command, can he not carry through the waters Noahs family, along with various species of animals to re-populate the earth?

  Sinners and offspring of Satan you are! Your faces will soon show the look that the pre-flood scoffers had when the gates of heaven were released for the first time since man began! Your souls will oneday beg for pardon and it will not be, for the god of heaven is a vengefull god who brings error into account and who will demand justice be served.

  If you people will not listen, will not learn, and will not believe, ....then I pray for your souls that the god of heaven will give you at least one hour of relief in the eternal flames of hellfire which is the destiny of all who will not believe...including many right here in this congregation!

  * storms off stage*

  Passes collection plate

  Rev Gumby
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  ozziepost

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  gumby

  This just in

  Gumby has returned momentarily to get the cash from the collection plate.
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  confusedjw

  Nice work Teacher.