RE: To Christians who aren't creationists
May 7, 2012 at 6:46 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2012 at 6:47 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
@Ryft
No, according to the theory as I loosely remember it, the Hebrew writers (whoever penned the story) really thought Adam lived 930 years old. I think the process worked
1. Hebrew scribes take pagan chronology thinking it's in weeks when it's really years
2. They sum up the life spans to get a total in weeks
3. Then they convert it to years (weeks / 54), which gets you the total 4000 year long chronology you find in the Bible
4. They divide up this span of years for their historical figures.
Some of the lifespans of the Bible characters have obvious symbolic meaning too I heard.
I'm not sure what episode I heard it in but Bible Geek can be heard here
The Bible Geek: http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/biblegeek.php
Also, Price does a lighter version of the show here:
The Human Bible: http://www.thehumanbible.net/
No, according to the theory as I loosely remember it, the Hebrew writers (whoever penned the story) really thought Adam lived 930 years old. I think the process worked
1. Hebrew scribes take pagan chronology thinking it's in weeks when it's really years
2. They sum up the life spans to get a total in weeks
3. Then they convert it to years (weeks / 54), which gets you the total 4000 year long chronology you find in the Bible
4. They divide up this span of years for their historical figures.
Some of the lifespans of the Bible characters have obvious symbolic meaning too I heard.
I'm not sure what episode I heard it in but Bible Geek can be heard here
The Bible Geek: http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/biblegeek.php
Also, Price does a lighter version of the show here:
The Human Bible: http://www.thehumanbible.net/
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
