RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
January 6, 2019 at 4:36 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2019 at 4:37 pm by pocaracas.)
(January 6, 2019 at 8:27 am)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote:(January 6, 2019 at 7:08 am)pocaracas Wrote: Hehe! I laughed!
It was a fair answer, indeed.
Does that mean that the standard Christian teaching implies that Jesus was already around in the OT? Hundreds of years before he was born?
Or was David a contemporary of Herod or Pontius Pilate?
Is this some sort of reverse cameo thing?
Also, about the priest's name, I found this (https://www.varchive.org/itb/zedek.htm):
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The meaning of the name Melchizedek is “Zedek is [My] King.” Zedek, as said, is the name of the planet Jupiter, remaining so in the astronomy of the Jews in later ages. In the Talmud Zedek refers to Jupiter.(5) Zedek also has the meaning of “righteousness” or “justice.”
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So... if King is associated with the particle "Melchi", and Zedek is "righteousness" or "justice", then is this high priest some sort of a king of the court of justice? But, at the time, it was the normal king that fulfilled this post, was it not? And that would be David, right?
Interestingly, I just noticed another name that begins with Melchi.... Melchior, which could refer to the king of the city of Ur (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur).
But it seems that people associate "or" with light, instead http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Melchior
Yes, you could call it a cameo. There are at least a few spots where it is believed to be Jesus.
We also see it in the NT with how Jesus addresses things.
John 8:57-58 Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”
Additionally, that is what the beginning of John implies.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Most of your English bibles just say "God" but often there is a specific name God chooses to be identified based on what is happening. In Genesis, where is says "God created" in the English bibles, he was actually referred to "Elohim" in the older manuscripts, which means "plurality in unity"
There's always so much information to take in with anything like this. Sometimes it can almost seem overwhelming since not only is it about finding information, but also trying to make sure it's the right information.
It's nice that it's all mostly self-consistent, isn't it?
But one can see it from a different perspective and think of it, instead of a reverse cameo, more as a retcon. Under this view, Jesus is a figure that appears in the literature to integrate and expand on the ancient (by then) notion of the Zedek guy.
Possibly written by Essene-related folk - I mean, would you associate the writers of the NT more with the Pharisees, Saducees or Essenes, if those were the only 3 options available?
Also, on a map, find Qumran, where the dead sea scrolls were found. See how that is very close to a possible route from Jerusalem to Damascus. Tell me if Paul could have come across the Essenes on that famous road.
And lastly, tell me your theory as to why this group of people so closely related to the philosophies of christianity is featured exactly ZERO times in all the writings in the bible.