(February 22, 2014 at 1:43 pm)discipulus Wrote:(February 22, 2014 at 10:49 am)catman Wrote: Amazingly China was populated within a few thousand years.
How is this pertinent?
Because it is impossible and flies in the face of all scientific and archaeological evidence.
Quote:The account in Genesis is that the nations of the world were populated by the descendants of Noah's sons. How is this not an account of a growing world population?
It is just another creation myth amongst many found in different regions throughout the world. Like other regional myths it is always a local who is the father of everyone on the planet.
Quote:The "fathers" of the nations were the three sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They knew God because they were delivered alive through the flood by God's providence and were eyewitnesses of the works of God. Their father, Noah, was referred to as a "righteous" man, and "blameless" in the sight of God, and as one who walked with God. It is not unreasonable to say that his sons knew God therefore. These were as I stated earlier, the "fathers" of the nations.
So your only evidence is because "the Bible says so". Of course as already mentioned numerous times the Bible does not say anything about what nations these men founded and how they progressed.
Quote:You are mistaken. For the account I have given you is the account of the very first people to populate the earth after the flood. We are speaking of a time that predates any of the world's religions and or mythologies. At this time the only people that existed on the face of the earth were those who were delivered alive through the flood by God.
According to the Bible. Not according to science, archaeology, nor any of the other mythologies/religions on the face of the Earth.
Quote:God revealed Himself to Moses as YHWH. This does not mean that there were two gods, but rather One God who revealed Himself as God Almighty from the time of Adam and Eve up until the time of Moses. The same God that created Adam and Eve was the same God who revealed Himself to Moses on Mt. Sinai. For does not the Shema which encapsulates the monotheistic essence of Judaism read?: "Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one"
Once again this is all according to the Bible.
Quote:The reason the Aztecs or the Chinese never heard of YHWH is because God never revealed Himself to those people by that name, but rather, He revealed Himself to them as God Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth.
How do you know that? Seriously, what evidence do you have that the Iron Age God of the Jewish people revealed himself to the Chinese or Aztecs?
