On Mar 15, 9:58=A0pm, jsav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(John Savard)
wrote:
> That the Bible, or some parts of it, might have had a Divine, or at
> least extraterrestrial, origin might be suggested in an unexpected way
> by two parts of it...
>
> Genesis 11:6
> And the LORD said, "Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one
> language, and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained
> from them, which they have imagined to do."
>
> Daniel 12:4
> But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the
> time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be
> increased.
>
> Generally speaking, we are told that the idea of progress, in the sense
> of technological progress, is a modern conception; it happened too
> slowly in the ancient world for people to notice it, and so it was not
> until the Industrial Revolution that this concept was discovered. Before
> then, if people thought in terms of change over time at all, it was in
> terms of hearkening back to a past Golden Age.
>
> It could be that this claim, often repeated in various books and
> articles, is, if not specious, at least of limited scope. [. . .]
In the year 5000, religious scholars will unearth a body of ancient
prophetic writings called sci-fi, and observing that a few of them
contain true prophecies while most do not, will use this to determine
which books were divinely inspired.
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