Category: Bible

Debt Forgiveness?

Every now and again, something bubbles up in the Zeitgeist that can cause us to wonder why we never saw it before. All the talk about writing off student loan debt has some of us pissed off, although as long as the banks, not the taxpayers absorb it, I’m fine with the concept. Screw the banks as they have been screwing us.

The Bible calls for the forgiveness of debts periodically, and it’s even in the Lord’s Prayer (non Catholic version) “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors”. I knew about it in the Bible, which I’ve read several times, but I gloss over it. I’ve never lived in a society that forgives debts, and I’d rather focus on the fun stuff like stoning adulterers and other sexual deviants.

I heard about this book yesterday while I was listening to one of Vox Day’s Darkstreams. Once I finish the book I’m reading on J Edgar Hoover, I’ll probably read this one. It’s available on Kindle Unlimited.

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Noah’s Ark

I’ve had the show “Myth Hunters” bookmarked on Netflix for quite a while. I saw that the first season is going away this month, so I have to watch it this weekend.

It has some interesting shows. The episode on “King Solomon’s Mines” was fascinating to me, as was Hitler and the Spear of Destiny.

The first episode on Noah’s Ark kind of pissed me off. It was produced recently enough that they could have done better research.

For one thing, not all Creationists are literal 6000 year “Young Earth” Creationists. It’s amazing to me how many people don’t know that. Or they do know that, but are hoping a fallacious appeal to ridicule is good enough for their audience.

For another, the episode focused exclusively on Mt. Ararat in Turkey. The Bible says the ark came to rest “Upon the mountains of Ararat.” Mt. Ararat in Turkey was named by Marco Polo, a fact mentioned then discarded in the show.

To find the real mountains of Ararat, one must focus on a land known as Ararat AT THE TIME GENESIS WAS WRITTEN, not from a 12th century explorer.

Josephus says the ark came to rest on a certain mountain in Armenia. Bob Cornuke of BASE Institute thinks Ararat was in Iran, and led an expedition there some years back.

Of course, finding the ark assumes it was left intact. I personally think it was disassembled for building material and/or firewood, of which no proof is available, but it makes sense.

Or it simply rotted away over the years. It was made of wood, after all. The Titanic has only been at the bottom of the ocean for 104 years, and it is rotting away. I doubt there will be anything left of it in 5000 years.

It would be cool as hell for somebody to find Noah’s Ark, but I don’t think it’s likely to happen.

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