An unorthodox belief in God.

[mickiel]

Well there is so much biblical archaeology that leads to evidence of a god existing, its just unreal;

http://www.bible-archaeology.info/palaces.htm

Biblical archaeology is showing that some places mentioned in the Bible existed. There's also something else very interesting on that site but a bit of history first.

Canaan - Hieroglyphic and Hieratic sources

1500-1000 BC

During the 2nd millennium BC, Ancient Egyptian texts use the term Canaan to refer to an Egyptian-ruled colony, whose boundaries generally corroborate the definition of Canaan found in the Hebrew Bible, bounded to the west by the Mediterranean Sea, to the north in the vicinity of Hamath in Syria, to the east by the Jordan Valley, and to the south by a line extended from the Dead Sea to around Gaza.

Ark Of The Covenant

Over the Ark was the Kapporeth, a gold plate the same size as the Ark, called in some translations the 'mercy seat'. The golden cherubim stood one at either end of the 'mercy seat' covering it with their outspread wings.

There are two photographs with the following captions -

Creatures on the shrine doors in the Egyptian pharoah Tutankhamun's tomb.
They strongly resemble the Bible's description of the cherubim.

The Bible specifies 'two cherubim of hammered gold with wings spread upward,
facing each other at the ends of the cover'

Scroll down to the bottom of the page.

What might the designers of the Ark been influenced by?

Tutankhamun's Tomb

One of the most startling examples comes from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

When Howard Carter opened the inner chamber, he found a statue of Anubis, Egyptian god of the dead, sitting on top of a large box covered with pure gold. It had poles inserted into rings so that it could be easily carried.

The Bible tells us that the Ark was originally transported from shrine to shrine, before David's son Solomon built a permanent home for it in the Temple in Jerusalem.

The poles of acacia, specified in the Bible, were used in much the same way as the poles on the Shrine of Anubis - to lift and carry.

The outer casings around Tutankhamun's coffin were covered with hammered gold leaf. At each corner, and on the doors, were winged female figures (cherubim?) who stretched their wings out and over the surface of the casings, as if to protect its contents.

Surely this cannot be coincidence? Each item described in the Bible

the winged protectors

the hammered gold and

the poles fitted onto moveable shrines

appears in Tutankhamun's tomb. One must assume that the Egyptian designs were copied and adapted by the Hebrew tribes of the time when they created their own religious artifacts.

As Canaan was an Egyptian colony for a while, the Hebrews didn't need to be in Egypt to learn of Egyptian designs.

If old ruins and artefacts prove that deities exist the Egyptian gods and goddess have to exist along with the Mesopotamian gods and goddesses. The God of the Bible is now one of many.

This site has some interesting explanations for various things and I found this while browsing.

Cain and Abel

Farming

In Neolithic (and more recent) hunter-gatherer societies, women collecting seed noticed that plants appeared where seeds had been dropped the previous year. In time the women began to drop seed deliberately and harvest it the following year when they returned. This was probably how agriculture started.

It may be why Eve, rather than Adam, was blamed for mankind's loss of the Garden of Eden. Food had been plentiful enough (in a good year) without much effort on people's part. Now, with the invention of the plough, things changed. Suddenly more land could be cultivated, and more people fed - but this required more work than hunter-gatherers were accustomed to. The 'Garden of Eden' was lost.

Cain Murders Abel

What the Story is really about
It would be a mistake to think this story is about one event, long ago, when two brothers quarrelled and came to blows.

Be a detective. Think about the source of information. Who originally told this story? The Patriarchs and Matriarchs, who were nomadic herdsmen. Naturally they told the story from their own point of view.

They saw the farmers (Cain) as violent – which they were. There was constant tension between settled city or town dwellers, and the wandering herdsmen.

The Bible remembers the struggle between the nomadic life and settled agriculture through a story where the different characters represent different ways of life. It is history remembered through a different medium, history embedded in a story.

Interesting. Lets keep this going and see if your myths can keep up with my facts then;

http://www.ancient.eu.com/Ishtar_Gate/