Just a little bit more on the flood...

 

In the 1920s, Sir Charles Woolley, a British archaeologist, while working at Tell al-Muqayyar, of Ur in Mesopotamia, made a startling discovery. He had been digging vertical shafts deep into the soil in the ancient city. As expected, he found layer after layer of evidence of human life - the remnants of graves, pottery, and rubble. But suddenly, it all stopped at a layer of pure clay that was approximately 10 feet thick. Such an abrupt and deep layer of clay, far above the ancient level of the nearby Euphrates river, was very unusual. It indicated a massive flood.

Woolley's workmen kept digging through the layer of sedimentary (i.e. water borne) clay, that had no evidence of human habitation, until it ended as abruptly as it started and they again found deposits of graves, pottery, rubble - but which were nothing at all like that found above the layer of water-deposited clay. The clay layer marked the boundary between two very different worlds, two very different civilizations, that Woolley declared were the before and after worlds of the flood. Woolley's findings made headline news in Britain and the United States at the time.

Jesus parables speak more truth to me than any story about God writing magically his 10 commandments on a stone with an hebraic alphabet that wasn't invented yet.

Geek, maybe I give you the wrong impression, i quite agree that the 10 commandments had not been put in force as to be in judgment of others, i don't think God meant it to be that way...but only as a help for people to live in peace with each other and have a happy life in general. Jesus Christ kept the 10 Commandments and taught men so, they can't be that bad hence forth...

but later.

The commandment of God is Love. It is somewhere inside us all, we are build with it. We Love God, therefore we Love God's creation, therefore we Love God's creature, therefore we Love Humanity, therefore we Love our self.

Geek, is this why we see wars and people hating each other ? I know there are many good people in the world and love does grow....but look around you and see already how hatred is being encouraged in some of the E.P threads, never mind in other places... love can grow cold very quickly too...is that the kind of love Jesus spoke of ? Think of the Jews how quickly they were hated by so many in Germany during WW2... or other minority groups...What about Zaire and Rwanda, how can such behaviour be possible with all that love in the human heart ?

Why does love grow cold so quickly ?

When I read that God is "like" a father or the kingdom of God is "like" a wineyard, this sounds to me the true way to talk about it. Jesus parables speak more truth to me than any story about God writing magically his 10 commandments on a stone with an hebraic alphabet that wasn't invented yet.

Yes Geek, very good comparison...but which of the ten commandments is so bad, that God had to send His Son to this earth to erase His mistake?

Christ said: "And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath:

"Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath" (Mark 2:27, 28). The Sabbath was MADE!

When was it made ? And Who made it ?

John wrote, "In the beginning was the Word (Greek: Logos), and the Word was with God (Greek: Theos, meaning more than one), and the Word was God (TWO members or Theos). "The same was in the beginning with God. "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made" (John 1:1-3)

Did Jesus Christ keep the Sabbath ? The answer is yes. The question is, Do we pick and choose which words of Jesus to believe and which one's to reject ?

Naturally we can, but should we ?