Sumerian Civilization and Its Extraordinary Advances
"Sumerian civilization appears to have been established in southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far back as 5000 BC."
"Established in the Fertile Crescent between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in modern-day Iraq, Sumer was the first urban civilization in the region. From early on, they had developed skills in farming and raising cattle. They also wove textiles and were skilled carpenters and pottery makers. More importantly, Sumerians are credited with inventing the wheel around 2500 BC."
"Mesopotamians are noted for developing one of the first written scripts around 3000 BC in the form of wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay tablets. This cuneiform script was also adapted and used for roughly two thousand years by surrounding peoples."
(And the guy who oversaw
putting this together was an expert in it.
"GE Mendenhall is considered one of the greatest Biblical scholars of the 20th century.
He was a cuneiformist.
He studied
cuneiform.
(plural cuneiforms)
An ancient Mesopotamian writing system,
adapted within several language families,
originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC,
evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes
formed by a blunt reed stylus on clay tablets.(anatomy)
A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
Like this
Education
Midland College (B.A., 1936)
Western Theological Seminary
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg (B.D., 1938)
"Mendenhall was first an ordained Lutheran minister,
and during World War II he served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy."
Ph.D. in Semitic languages from Johns Hopkins University.
Taught at the University of Michigan's Department of Near Eastern Studies
"After his retirement from Michigan in 1986 he taught part time 1987-1992 at The Institute of Archaeology in Yarmouk University in Jordan.
During his tenure he was twice annual professor at the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem.
(1955-1956, 1965-1966).
He was a visiting research professor at the American University of Beirut (1971) and a member of several archaeological expeditions at sites in Syria and Jordan.
According to the:
Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters
"Mendenhall has proved to be one of the seminal biblical scholars of the twentieth century...He played a decisive role in creating and impelling new fields of fundamental research that had not really existed before."
Now you ready for this?
This Bible I found of his?
The first autographed edition!
It's what it says.
Not a first edition that was autographed.
The first autographed Mendenhall edition.
Anyway lol.
Thought you might wanna know lol.)
Back to the article:
"One of the world’s first great works of literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, was written in cuneiform. This form of writing was used for sales and purchases, correspondence, and sharing tales."
"Sumerians had developed a merchant navy to import and export goods, traveling into the Persian Gulf and making trade and cultural exchanges with other peoples, such as the Harappans in Northern India. They made and traded textiles, leather goods, and jewelry for semi-precious stones, copper, pearls, and ivory of the Harrapans.'
(That's kind of interesting because
that's two of the six largest ancient civilizations
exchanging with each other.)
(Scholars generally acknowledge six cradles of civilization: Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient India, and China are believed to be the earliest in Afro-Eurasia (previously called the Old World), while the Caral-Supe civilization of coastal Peru and the Olmec civilization of Mexico are believed to be the earliest in Americas - previously known in Eurocentric Western literature as the New World.)
"They were polytheistic and
many of their deities had
anthropomorphic forms,
much like the gods worshipped by ancient Greeks. Their dedicated temples were built atop massive ziggurats situated in the centers of most Sumerian cities. Like the pyramids in Egypt, these structures would have taken thousands of people and many years to construct."
(Similarities to the Egyptians and trade with the
Harrapans, Interesting.)
"The Sumerians were the first to establish a city
in terms of
urban structure and organization.
They had schools
in order to pass knowledge to children and
were the first documented people
to have learning establishments."
"Sumerian Uruk is considered the first city in the world by some historians, boasting a population ranging from 40,000 to 80,000 in around the year 2800 BC. However, the Sumerians themselves believed that the first city was Eridu, established by Enki, the god of wisdom and water. Enki is said to have raised it from the watery marshes and established the concept of kingship and order in the land."
(Lets compare that with:
Genesis 1
New American Bible
(Revised Edition)
Preamble. The Creation of the World
Chapter 1
The Story of Creation.[a]
1 In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth— 2 [b]and the earth was without form or shape, with darkness over the abyss and a mighty wind sweeping over the waters—
3 Then God said: Let there be light, and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good. God then separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” Evening came, and morning followed—the first day.[c]
6 Then God said: Let there be a dome in the middle of the waters, to separate one body of water from the other. 7 God made the dome,[d] and it separated the water below the dome from the water above the dome. And so it happened. 8 God called the dome “sky.” Evening came, and morning followed—the second day.
9 Then God said: Let the water under the sky be gathered into a single basin, so that the dry land may appear. And so it happened: the water under the sky was gathered into its basin, and the dry land appeared. 10 God called the dry land “earth,” and the basin of water he called “sea.” God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said: Let the earth bring forth vegetation: every kind of plant that bears seed and every kind of fruit tree on earth that bears fruit with its seed in it. And so it happened: 12 the earth brought forth vegetation: every kind of plant that bears seed and every kind of fruit tree that bears fruit with its seed in it. God saw that it was good. 13 Evening came, and morning followed—the third day.
14 Then God said: Let there be lights in the dome of the sky, to separate day from night. Let them mark the seasons, the days and the years, 15 and serve as lights in the dome of the sky, to illuminate the earth. And so it happened: 16 God made the two great lights, the greater one to govern the day, and the lesser one to govern the night, and the stars. 17 God set them in the dome of the sky, to illuminate the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. 19 Evening came, and morning followed—the fourth day.
20 Then God said: Let the water teem with an abundance of living creatures, and on the earth let birds fly beneath the dome of the sky. 21 God created the great sea monsters and all kinds of crawling living creatures with which the water teems, and all kinds of winged birds. God saw that it was good, 22 and God blessed them, saying: Be fertile, multiply, and fill the water of the seas; and let the birds multiply on the earth. 23 Evening came, and morning followed—the fifth day.
24 Then God said: Let the earth bring forth every kind of living creature: tame animals, crawling things, and every kind of wild animal. And so it happened: 25 God made every kind of wild animal, every kind of tame animal, and every kind of thing that crawls on the ground. God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said: Let us make[e] human beings in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the tame animals, all the wild animals, and all the creatures that crawl on the earth.
27 God created mankind in his image;
in the image of God he created them;
male and female[f] he created them.
28 God blessed them and God said to them: Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it.[g] Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that crawl on the earth. 29 [h]God also said: See, I give you every seed-bearing plant on all the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food; 30 and to all the wild animals, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the earth, I give all the green plants for food. And so it happened. 31 God looked at everything he had made, and found it very good. Evening came, and morning followed—the sixth day.
Footnotes
(IMPORTANT)
GENESIS 1:1–2:3
This section, from the Priestly source, functions as an introduction, as ancient stories of the origin of the world (cosmogonies) often did. It introduces the primordial story (Genesis 2:4–11:26), the stories of the ancestors (11:27–50:26), and indeed the whole Pentateuch. The chapter highlights the goodness of creation and the divine desire that human beings share in that goodness. God brings an orderly universe out of primordial chaos merely by uttering a word.
(Vibration anybody?)
In the literary structure of six days, the creation events in the first three days are related to those in the second three.
1. light (day)/darkness (night) = 4. sun/moon
2. arrangement of water = 5. fish + birds from waters
3. a) dry land = 6. a) animals
b) vegetation b) human beings: male/female
The seventh day, on which God rests, the climax of the account, falls outside the six-day structure.
Until modern times the first line was always translated, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Several comparable ancient cosmogonies, discovered in recent times, have a “when…then” construction, confirming the translation “when…then” here as well. “When” introduces the pre-creation state and “then” introduces the creative act affecting that state. The traditional translation, “In the beginning,” does not reflect the Hebrew syntax of the clause.
Genesis 1:2 This verse is parenthetical, describing in three phases the pre-creation state symbolized by the chaos out of which God brings order: “earth,” hidden beneath the encompassing
cosmic waters,
(H2O.
Two parts Hydrogen
One part Oxygen.
WATER.
What was one of the elements
in abundance
at the start of the universe again?
Hydrogen.
Queue brother Brian somebody:
"ITS NOT COMPLICATED!)
could not be seen, and thus had no “form”; there was only darkness; turbulent wind swept over the waters. Commencing with the last-named elements (darkness and water), vv. Genesis 1:3–10 describe the rearrangement of this chaos: light is made (first day) and the water is divided into water above and water below the earth so that the earth appears and is no longer “without outline.” The abyss: the primordial ocean according to the ancient Semitic cosmogony. After God’s creative activity, part of this vast body forms the salt-water seas (vv. Genesis 1:9–10); part of it is the fresh water under the earth (Ps 33:7; Ez 31:4), which wells forth on the earth as springs and fountains (Gn 7:11; 8:2; Prv 3:20). Part of it, “the upper water” (Ps 148:4; Dn 3:60), is held up by the dome of the sky (Genesis 1 vv. 6–7), from which rain descends on the earth (Gn 7:11; 2 Kgs 7:2, 19; Ps 104:13). A mighty wind: literally, “spirit or breath [ruah] of God”; cf. Gn 8:1.
1:5 In ancient Israel a day was considered to begin at sunset.
Genesis 1:7 The dome: the Hebrew word suggests a gigantic metal dome. It was inserted into the middle of the single body of water to form dry space within which the earth could emerge. The Latin Vulgate translation firmamentum, “means of support (for the upper waters); firmament,” provided the traditional English rendering.
1:26 Let us make: in the ancient Near East, and sometimes in the Bible, God was imagined as presiding over an assembly of heavenly beings who deliberated and decided about matters on earth (1 Kgs 22:19–22; Is 6:8; Ps 29:1–2; 82; 89:6–7; Jb 1:6; 2:1; 38:7, Ps 82. This scene accounts for the plural form here and in Gn 11:7 (“Let us then go down…”). Israel’s God was always considered “Most High” over the heavenly beings.
(Angels and the Trinity)
Human beings: Hebrew ’ādām is here the generic term for humankind; in the first five chapters of Genesis it is the proper name Adam only at 4:25 and 5:1–5. In our image, after our likeness: “image” and “likeness” (virtually synonyms) express the worth of human beings who have value in themselves (human blood may not be shed in 9:6 because of this image of God) and in their task, dominion (1:28), which promotes the rule of God over the universe.
1:27 Male and female: as God provided the plants with seeds (vv. 11, 12) and commanded the animals to be fertile and multiply (v. 22), so God gives sexuality to human beings as their means to continue in existence.
1:28 Fill the earth and subdue it: the object of the verb “subdue” may be not the earth as such but earth as the territory each nation must take for itself (chaps. 10–11), just as Israel will later do (see Nm 32:22, 29; Jos 18:1). The two divine commands define the basic tasks of the human race—to continue in existence through generation and to take possession of one’s God-given territory. The dual command would have had special meaning when Israel was in exile and deeply anxious about whether they would continue as a nation and return to their ancient territory. Have dominion: the whole human race is made in the “image” and “likeness” of God and has “dominion.” Comparable literature of the time used these words of kings rather than of human beings in general; human beings were invariably thought of as slaves of the gods created to provide menial service for the divine world. The royal language here does not, however, give human beings unlimited power, for kings in the Bible had limited dominion and were subject to prophetic critique.
1:29 According to the Priestly tradition, the human race was originally intended to live on plants and fruits as were the animals (see v. 30), an arrangement that God will later change (9:3) in view of the human inclination to violence.
GOT ALL OF THAT ? :-).
OKAY GOOD.
FEW POINTS:
ONE,
the prevalence of water.
'Enki, the god of wisdom and water.
Enki is said to have raised it from the watery marshes and ..."
TWO,
"the order that descended out of the chaos.
established the concept of kingship and order in the land."
THREE,
"Several comparable ancient cosmogonies,
discovered in recent times, have a “when…then” construction.
THOSE?
ORIGINALLY CAME FROM
THE SOURCE OF WISDOM.
ALMIGHTY GOD.
NOT:
"Well the writers of the bible just took all of those
and consolidated them to suit their own purposes."
"Discovered in recent times"
Kinda rules that option out.
So:
"Several comparable ancient cosmogonies,
discovered in recent times, have a “when…then” construction."
Either they all developed independently outside of each other? Borrowed from each other somewhat, Or they all came from one common original source?
Best guess logical rational brain God gave you.
BIG POINT HERE NOT TO BE MISSED
FOUR,
"...in the ancient Near East,
and sometimes in the Bible,
God was imagined
as presiding over
an assembly of heavenly beings
(Angels)
who deliberated and decided
about matters on earth."
Its exactly what happened,
Why and how do you think they
(the Sumerians)
had so many first?
right in front of your eyes that tells you.)
Anyway, I wonder where the Samarians got all that from?
Don't get it backwards!
"Enki raising Eridu from the watery marshes..."
(Sound familiar? :-)
Moses anybody?
Sounds like they already knew
what was going to happen.
Extraterrestrials know the future?
One question then:
WHERE IS THEIR BOOK EXPLAINING IT?)
refers to the Eridu Genesis, a manuscript dating to 2300 BC that was found in the ruins of Eridu. It is a story that resembles that of Noah’s Ark. Here, the mortal is Ziusudra, who is the only man saved from the great flood when Enki tells him to build an ark and rescue two of every kind of animal.
(Lil Moses And Lil Noah, again, interesting.)
Afterwards, the gods relent and determine to control the annoying human population by introducing death and disease into the world.
(Nephilim anybody?
"The Gods"?
Are the fallen angels.
Death and Disease are introduced into the world by God.
All kinds of other evil, witchcraft, magic and violence
was introduced by the Nephilim.)
"In this way, they reestablished order and
set a limit to human life...
(THE GODS OF SUMARIA DID THAT?
MORE LIKE THEY KNEW WHO DID
AND CONVINCED HUMANS THAT IT WAS THEM:
Genesis 6:3
And the Lord said,
(Vibrations)
My spirit shall not always strive with man,
for that he also is flesh:
yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.)
and ambition. Tablet XI of The Epic of Gilgamesh relates the exact same story a few centuries later."
"For Sumerians, order was crucial, and the duty of the citizens was to try to keep order throughout their lives. It was the citizens’ main obligation. The gods themselves, however,
would return."
(Critical
Its exactly what the watchers did.
They weren't Gods.
They were angels.
Sent to help humanity along
Obviously.
The Sumerians just thought they were Gods.
Look at all the first they accomplished,
its simply not by accident.
I guess if you wanna make
the Sumerian "Star People" special
it could be because of all the first they helped them accomplish.)
the world to chaos when humanity’s noise and trouble became too great to bear."
"Furthermore, the bestowment of Enki with the title of god of wisdom is an indication of how advanced the Sumerian civilization was in 3000 BC."
"The earliest cities established in Sumer other than Uruk were: Eridu, Ur, Larsa, Isin, Adab, Kullah, Nippur, and Kish. Like in most ancient cities, the main temple complex was at the center marked by the tall ziggurats, which is said to have inspired the story of the Tower of Babel. Each city was dedicated to a god who lived in the temple to protect the citizens.
(Ur appears in 4 Bible verses:
and
Nehemiah 9:7-8
“You are the Lord God,
who chose Abram
and brought him out of Ur
of the Chaldeans
and named him Abraham.
You found his heart faithful to you,
and you made a covenant with him
to give to his descendants
he land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites,
Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites.
You have kept your promise because you are righteous.")
"Sumerian scientific advancements
Other than inventing the wheel, Sumerians exhibited advanced scientific knowledge. They were capable in mathematics, as their intricate architecture and engineering shows. They also had advanced knowledge in hydraulic engineering. Evident in their network of canals, they had invented a system of ditches to control flooding and are credited with the first advanced system of irrigation, using the power of the Tigris and Euphrates.
Their system of medicine was based on magic and herbalism, but they were also knowledgeable about extracting parts from natural substances. Surgical instruments found in archaeological sites indicate they performed surgery, meaning they had an advanced knowledge of anatomy."
"God sent the watchers here to help Humanity get going. We all do better if we all work together. The Sumerians saw them as Gods but they weren't. As as we know, some of them rebelled and left their "First Estate" or Habitation."
You honestly think all that came from somewhere else besides the will of almighty God?
Interesting.)
"One fascinating achievement of the Sumerians was their time-keeping structure. They invented the sexagesimal (base-60) system and first divided the movements of the heavens into countable intervals, finding that 60 was the perfect number. The number 60 can be divided into 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30 equal parts.
Ancient astronomers believed there were 360 days in a year, a number in which 60 fits neatly into six times. Sumerian astronomers and mathematicians were the first to systematically divide the passage of time. Their work was widely accepted and spread throughout Eurasia."
(Lets visit the number9s) 6/60 and
for a few minutes:
From the Interpreters Bible
"C. THIRD VISION: SATAN BOUND AND HIS RULE SUSPENDED FOR A THOUSAND YEARS
(Revelation 20:1-3)
p. 517
The reign of the Antichrist and of idolatrous Rome ended forever when the beast was hurled into the lake of fire. Satan, who had endowed them with all his power and still remained as the ruler of the world and of this age, is to meet a similar fare For John saw an angel descending from heaven holding the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain. He is probably the star-angel of 9-1 who fell from heaven and and unlocked the bottomless pit with this same key so as to release the scourge of demonic locust. This time he had ad an infinitely more important task, that of overpowering Satan and bringing his evil age to an end. We are not given the details of the conflict, but are simply told that he succeeded in capturing Satan, and after binding him with the chain cast him into the bottomless pit, which he shut and sealed and presumably locked with the key. Here Satan was to be kept securely for a thousand years, after which he must be loosed for a short period of time.
Thus Satan's career is interrupted for a millennium, and his rule over this world and this age is suspended. Why this all-important role was assigned to an unnamed angel rather than to Christ or to Michael, who had previously forced Satan from heaven (Revelation 12:7-9), is a puzzle, why Satan was not immediately cast into the fiery lake, along with the two beasts, his power ended forever, is a still greater mystery.
(My Addition:
SO THAT HE COULD BE LET GO AFTER 1000 YEARS
TO TEMPT THOSE FROM THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM)
"This brief but significant episode, like the expulsion of Satan from heaven, has a mythological base. Reference has previously been made to the cosmological myth of the conflict between the god Marduk and Tiamat, the monster of chaos (cf. Revelation 12:7), as well as to the ancient account of the struggle between the serpentine Leviathan and the gods of (cf. Revelation 12:3). We may also recall that after Horus had overcome the evil Set-Typhon, for some reason Isis relented and ordered him released. To turn to a Jewish source, in 1 Enoch 10:1-6 and 54:5-6 the fallen angels are to be bound until the Day of Judgment, a
that is repeated in Jude 6.
But none of these is a true parallel. Perhaps the closest analogy is to be found the Iranian eschatological story of the demonic Azhi Dhaka, with two serpent heads growing out between his shoulders, who traced his lineage to Ahriman. His thousand years of evil rule over the earth ended when Fredun overcame him and chained lin beneath Mount Damavand, since he was not able to put him to death. At the end the world, however, he will be released, only to be put to death finally by Sama, will be miraculously restored for this purpose
(cf. Bundahish 29:7-9, 31:7; Bahman Yast 3:58-62, 9:7-8).
(Those I can not currently find links to)
In a similar fashion the power that Satan exercised over the world we checked when he was bound and imprisoned in the bottomless pit.
D. FOURTH VISION:
THE REIGN OF CHRIST-THE MILLENNIUM (Revelation 20:4-6).
p.519
"...So also, according to Zoroastrian eschatology, the last millennium of the twelve of world history
(They do not repeat people.
It comes to an end.)
would be the millennium of the third
and most important Saoshyant,
a kind of savior or messiah.
(Beliels in the day of the Lord :-).
(OCR put that last line in there by itself,
I didn't add it in and its not on the page.
promise.)
"A somewhat similar combination of messianism and apocalypticism in Judaism is provided by II Esdras 7:26-30. At the end of a series of messianic woes the Messiah will appear with the patriarchs, who had ascended to heaven, to establish his kingdom for the righteous who survived the woes. This temporal and terrestrial kingdom will last for four hundred years, after which the Messiah and all who draw human breath will die. Following a seven-day period of primeval silence, the resurrection and judgment will take place and God's new age will be established. Likewise, according to II Baruch 39-40, the Messiah will establish his kingdom, after the Antichrist is destroyed, and his kingdom will endure as long as this world of corruption endures. A somewhat similar pattern is outlined by Paul in I Cor. 15:23-28. At the second coming of Christ the Christians will be resurrected and Christ will establish his kingdom on earth. Then after destroying every supernatural rule and power, including the last enemy, death, he will turn his kingdom over to God.
In some respects, however, the closest analogy to the pattern in Revelation is of the neo-Hebraic Apocalypse of Elijah,
(Oh the old Jewish tradition with Tabitha and Elijah
fighting evil in the end, Interesting.)
in which a messianic kingdom of forty years comes
after the destruction of the Antichrist and before the destruction of Gog and Magog. Only after this will this age end and God's age begin."
(Exactly like somebody had it in their Noah to New earth series of presentations, oh and guess where the Magi come from?
Yeah, it is, "the term for priests in Zoroastrianism and earlier Iranian religions", so ya might wanna ask yourselves how they knew what the stars they saw meant and how they knew what gifts to bring.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons
(as in sacred)
and days and years.
Got all that again?
Good
:-).
There's a point coming
at the end of the piece,
I promise,
stick with me lol.)
Back to the article:
"The legend of Oannes and theories of extraterrestrials
"The advanced civilization of Sumerians and certain depictions of their deities have led some people to believe the Sumerian gods were actually extraterrestrials who visited Sumer and embedded their advanced knowledge."
(Anything but the lord God Almighty much?
Not hardly
ANGELS
NOT
NOT
EXTRATERRESTIALS:
Genesis 6:1-4
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God
(Yeah, thats them, angels)
saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
"Renowned astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan (1934-1996) has speculated..."
(form a theory or conjecture:
inference formed
without proof
or sufficient evidence,
a conclusion deduced
by surmise or guesswork.
about a subject
without firm evidence.)
"it is not impossible
that an alien species
has visited the Earth at some point."
(Brought to you by the same types
who nowadays want you to believe
that the moon could have been made of Blue Cheese. Hey, it's a "probability." they say. Just because something has the slightest chance of being or having been?
.00000000000000000000009 of a chance lets say?
DOES NOT MAKE IT
PROBABLE!
PROBABLE!
BESIDES,
IF ANYTHING
IF ANYTHING
COULD BE A REASON?
(Moon Blue Chz example)
THEN THERE IS NO LONGER
THEN THERE IS NO LONGER
REASON FOR ANYTHING
ANGELS, NOT ALIENS PEOPLE.
"It cannot be proven,
but it is not impossible."
(Yeah, and as stated the moon can be made of blue cheese...)
"The subject is discussed in the book he co-wrote with Iosif Shklovsky, Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966)."
(LORD KNOWS WE GOT TO WRITE A BOOK!
FUCK CARL SAGAN.
I USED TO LIKE HIM AS WELL
WHEN I WAS GROWING UP.)
"The line of logic is that,
in the vast universe of countless planets,
there must be an advanced species
that can travel for light years
and make a stop on Earth."
(It would have never happened.
They would have invented
a form of intelligence
more intelligence than themselves
and been wiped out by it
long before they could have ever
advanced to be able to travel
light years.
Carl Sagan didn't live to see
the AI that we now have in this world.)
"After all, the first piece of writing in the world dates to 3400 BC. What if aliens came before that,
and there is no documentation of their visit?
(What if?
They were angels?
Eternity is at stake yall.
Choose wisely.)
"What if extraterrestrials visited the Sumerians and passed their wisdom to them, and the locals depicted them in sculptures?
(What if?
They were angels?
Eternity is at stake yall.
Choose wisely.)
"According to the legend, Oannes bestowed upon the early Sumerians “insight into letters, and sciences, and every kind of art. He taught them to construct houses, establish temples, and compile laws. He also explained the principles of geometric knowledge to them.” After Oannes, a similar creature named Apkallou came to check on the work of the Sumerians,” it was said."
“Sumerian civilization
is depicted
by the descendants
of the Sumerians themselves
to be of non-human origin,”
Sagan commented,
(Well no shit.
Thanks Carl.)
"adding that several strange creatures appeared over the course of generations “with the only apparent purpose to instruct mankind.”
(Well no shit.
Thanks again Carl.)
"Sagan further commented that stories like the Oannes legend and representations,
especially of the earliest civilizations of Earth, deserve to be studied thoroughly
“with the possibility of direct contact
with an extraterrestrial civilization
as one of the many
possible alternative interpretations.”
Well?
There's a book that says it was Angels that were appointed with the task of helping humanity along. And they rebelled.
And it just happens to get all of this correct:
"An Inflationary period
of universe expansion
(Light on day one)
a Creation event
(Big Bang)
and
Star formation
(Light on day 4)
and the manner in which
we understand
it had to have happened.
Time, space, energy and matter all brought forth in a continuum in an instant.
Genesis 1:1
The Beginning
In the beginning
(Time)
God created
(Energy)
the heavens
(Space)
and the earth.
(Matter)
No other book even comes close
to getting that right.
Let alone everything else I am referencing here.
As well Gods word describes boundary conditions set up by the "fine tuner" if you will as exhibited byJob 38:4-11 and Ecclesiastes 3:11.
(Also listed in point #1)
Gods word also supports the scientific fact that we are in the universe and the universe is in us.
John 14:20
As well as its predictions for the future being proven true right in front of you today:
Revelation 13:15
Life to the image of the beast,
sentient machines now among us.
"Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
"Around 90 per cent of land-dwelling plants are ones that flower and bear fruit, called angiosperms. These flowering plants are essential in maintaining Earth’s ecosystems, such as by storing carbon and producing oxygen, and make up the bulk of our diets."
“Our very existences are dependent on them,” says William Baker at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the UK. “That’s why we really need to understand them."
"After their emergence around 140 million years ago, angiosperms quickly flourished, surpassing the flowerless gymnosperms as the world’s dominant plant type."
"The abrupt appearance of flowering plant diversity in the fossil record has stumped scientists for the past few centuries..."
So.
Ask yourself
with the rational,
logical intellect
that God gave you
Does Carl Sagan and his:
"speculated..."
conjecture
formed without proof
or sufficient evidence,
a conclusion deduced
by surmise or guesswork.
about a subject
HAVE ANY OF THAT?
And what about all the other "Star People" in other ancient cultures you want studied Carl? Did they have their own extraterrestrials too? What's the odds of all of that since yall like to play with probabilities so much?
ONE SOURCE EXPLAINS ALL OF THEM.
THIS WAS THE BELIEF OF THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS BEFORE IT WAS DECIDED IT WAS TO OUTRAGEOUS AND PEOPLE WOULD NOT BELIEVE IT.
CHURCH IS A MAN MADE INSTITUTION AND AS SUCH IT WILL HAVE ALL THE FAILINGS OF MAN.
THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS HAD IT RIGHT ALL ALONG.
And now a lil side point about:
Enki
Eridu Genesis
Ziusudra
ZOROASTARIANS
Marduk
Tiamat,
Leviathan
Horus
Set-Typhon,
Isis
Azhi Dhaka,
Ahriman.
Fredun
Sama,
Saoshyant,
and I'll raise your bet
on those with some:
and a pagan
(Christmas)
tree
and whatever else
you might wanna throw in.
And I will
DESTROY THE
"Well they just all
conspired together
and adapted
all of that
(Those mythologies above)
to suite their own purposes."
Argument
with one word:
OMNIPOTENT
"(of a deity)
having unlimited power;
able to do anything."
Trumps any and all of that.
How?
One might ask?
WELL? WHAT KIND OF
OMNIPOTENT DEITY
COULDNT CONVERT
COULDNT CONVERT
TO HIS OWN PURPOSES
WHATEVER HE WANTED?
WHATEVER HE WANTED?
Cultures, Ideas, traditions etc?
I'll tell ya what kind Omnipotent deity couldn't do that.
ONE NOT WORTH WORSHIPING!
Yeah, all of em.
Right.
All of those mythologies
didn't come from one source?
They were ALL adapted after the fact?
To serve a conspiratorial purpose?
Makes about as much sense
as 30 (or so) different races of "Star People" right?
"The Greek word for Almighty was really Pantokrator, the All-ruler, the one who makes all things obey him, one who brings good out of evil, who compels even, "the wrath of man to serve him", who over-rules the devices and purposes of men and guides all the processes of history.
(Look at your world right now)
that magnificent conception,
set at the forefront
of the church's earliest creed,
(Apostles Creed
"I believe in God the father almighty...
We say it every Sunday.)
CAME FROM NOWHERE
IN THE PAGAN WORLD,
BUT ONLY FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT,
FROM THE SACRED SCRIPTURE OF THE JEWS
WHICH WAS NOW ALSO THAT OF THE CHRISTIANS."
p. 42
Copyright 1960.
Science doesn't need 100% conclusive proof.
Science goes with what has the most overwhelming evidence behind it.
Decision time.
They are oiling up the chains on the ark.
Some higher level life forms agree.
It's an ancient non European faith
that got twisted into something
it was never supposed to be.
Particularly in this country
in the last half of this the last century
and the start of this one.
You might wanna think about why that is exactly.
Besides
Somebody was using somebody to talk about
the resurrection of the Church a while back.
would be the of the Church
during the end times,
from an afflicted
and persecuted state,
to liberty and peace.
Again, we just don't normally think of resurrection along these terms.
Resurrected Church?
Who ever heard of such a thing."
I can tell you this much,
even Satan himself knows
he cant stop it.
Resonates.
A lot.
One more time:
“Sumerian civilization
is depicted
by the descendants
of the Sumerians themselves
to be of non-human origin,”
Sagan commented,
CARL SAGAN HAD A BOOK
THAT IS GETTING EVERYTHING
ELSE RIGHT THESE DAYS?
THAT IS GETTING EVERYTHING
ELSE RIGHT THESE DAYS?
IF HE DID?
HE SURE DIDNT
HE SURE DIDNT
PAY MUCH ATTENTION TO IT.
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