Dave Siemens wrote:
>Here I thought that the cowboys, shepherds, dairy farmers and the like
>who were neither Orthodox Jews nor orthodox Christians were legitimate.
>But Dick has proved that they are all perverse usurpers who have no right
>to the products of their efforts.
Sure they do, beef, wool and milk, for example. But if they want to speak
up for God, they need to enter into a right relationship. We can tell them
how
to do that.
>I am also somewhat worried that the divine promise that there would be no
>more Flood applies only to the area around Mesopotamia, that is, the
>Mid-East and Northern Africa, from Turkey to Persia to the Sudan. The
>Americas, Australia, Antarctica, eastern Asia, central and southern
>Africa and, probably, Europe, do not fall under the divine warrant.
The promise was not to the land, but to Noah and his kin. Although there
have been devastating floods all over the world since then, Bangladesh,
China,
India, Africa, in no instance have God's chosen been at ground zero.
>By the way, will someone who knows a lot more about the history of
>Mesopotamia than I please tell me the date of the last major flood on the
>Euphrates and Tigris rivers? Then I can place an exact date on Noah. On
>the basis of Dick's interpretation and God's promise, it has to be the
>last one.
The early dynastic period of Mesopotamian history dates from 2900 BC to
2370 BC and begins with the post-flood rulers at Kish. The flood layers at
Kish, Shuruppak, Uruk (Erech), and Lagash were dated by archaeologists
at approximately 2900 BC.
If the Exodus was during the reign of Raamses II, dated by scholars at
1290 BC, if there are 615 years from Abraham to the Exodus using Ussher
and Light foot's measure, if there are 1072 years between Abraham and the
flood from the Septuagint, and if the flood lasted one year, then the
year of the flood was 2978 BC. In the absence of data to the contrary,
2900 BC or thereabouts is my choice.
Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
"The answer we should have known about 150 years ago."
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