(August 21, 2015 at 5:05 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Necro... oh well...
The other day, a thought came across my mind.... it's a dangerous thing, but it happens, once in a while!
For a catholic, what is the relevance of the OT?
The Old Testament is the New concealed; the New is the Old revealed.
Quote:Also, assuming that the OT contains some truth, and there has ever been only one god and this god presented itself to the first humans, then how did people come up with all the others? Specially, knowing that the one single god popped up every once in a while...
How long did it take for the people whom God had delivered from Israel to create a golden calf while Moses was talking with God on Mt. Sinai? A few weeks?
Quote:How long would that have taken? Maybe we can look into the book for that? How many generations passed in between Noah (the sole survivor, along with his family, of the flood and someone firmly convinced of the single god notion, which his family should also be) and Moses? I seem to remember the NT having one or two genealogies of J.C. with a mandatory passage through Noah.
Are there enough generation to produce the whole population of Egypt? And the religion of Egypt and convince every egyptian of those other gods? And also produce some 2 million hebrews and enslave them?
Interesting questions. Let me know if you come up with anything.
In the meantime, here is part of the genealogy of Jesus that Luke recorded:
Quote:the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch,
the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel,
the son of Kenan, 38 the son of Enosh,
the son of Seth, the son of Adam,
the son of God.
God
Adam
Seth
Enosh
Kenan
Mahalalel
Jared
Enoch
Methuselah
Lamech
Noah
Only nine generations from Adam to Noah assuming Luke didn't skip anyone. And remember, these folks lived a really long time.
