The Bible Story,
An
academic circumspection:
Is
there truth in this Story?
By:
David Freed 11/01/06
Part
one,
Creation
and the de-evolution of man.
Hopefully,
one day, I’ll have a chance to tell this story in some type of recorded media,
because I fully understand the slow read of scripture, but for now, this exercise
will help to build the perfect script. It would be impossible to include all
aspects of the entire story, without reproducing the Bible itself.
I
know that there is a lot of information to cover, just in the origin stories
alone; therefore I have abridged the information as much as possible and will
only focus on two parts. Part one begins with our initial creation and covers
the de-evolution of man. Part two Ponders the cultural manipulation of the Jewish
people and their role in twenty-first century current events.
Remember,
Heavenly inspired or not, the Bible is one of the most complete records of mankind
throughout our history. Actually, it claims to start at the very beginning of
our creation and predicts our future demise. Not only does it claim to
cover the entire history of our reality, but also it is additionally supported
by a wealth of reference material and commentary, both pro and con.
Genesis
is the oldest text in the Bible and its authorship is debated. Therefore, every
argument about the Bible being “not-factual,” and full of transcription and
translation errors, must apply to Genesis in spades. So, lets just examine this
Bible Story, from our larger and more cosmologically academic perspective.
The
Creation Story
Gen
1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth….”
Gen
1:3 “And God said, ‘Let there
be light…’”
Gen
1:5 “…. And there was evening, and there was morning – the first day.”
Gen
1:6 “And God said, ‘Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate
water from water.’”
Gen
1:7 "So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse
from the water above it ..."
Gen
1:8 “…And there was evening, and there was morning – the second day.”
Gen
1:9 “… And God said, ‘Let the waters under the sky be gathered to one place
and let the dry ground appear.’”
Gen
1:11 “Then God said, ‘Let the land produce vegetation…’”
Gen
1:13 “And there was evening, and there was morning – the third day.”
Gen
1:14 “And God said, ‘Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate
the day from the night…”
Gen
1:16 “God made two great lights – the greater to govern the day and the lesser
light to govern the night…”
Gen
1:19 “And there was evening, and there was morning – the fourth day.”
Gen
1:20 “And God said, ‘Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds
fly above the earth….”
Gen
1:23 “And there was evening, and there was morning – the fifth day.”
Gen
1:24 “And God said, ‘Let the land produce living creatures….”
Gen
1:26 “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our likeness, and let then rule…”
Gen
1:27 “So God created man in his own image…. male and female he created them.”
Gen
1:28 “God blessed them and said
to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.
Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living
creature that moves on the ground.”
Gen
1:30 “… everything that has the breath of life in it – I give every green
plant for food….”
Gen
1:31 “…And there was evening, and there was morning – the sixth day.”
Gen
2:2 “By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on
the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day
and made it holy…”
So,
there we have the infamous six days of creation story. How bold of any document
to dare describe the earliest moments of the birth of our reality. Remember
just how long ago these words were first formulated and transcribed.
A
closer review of these six initial days is attempted in paper later in this
series, The Big Bang of Creation. That essay will attempt to survey what current
astrophysicist may have to say in relation to these miraculous six days.
Adam
and Eve
Gen
2:5 “… God had not sent rain on the earth…”
Gen
2:6 “but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of
the ground…”
What
an interesting place this describes. It doesn’t rain on the Earth, but streams
come up from the ground in enough quantity to water the entire Earth.
Gen
2:7 “ the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.”
And
man became a living being.
Gen
2:8 “…God planted a garden in the East, in Eden; and there he put the man
he had formed…”
Gen
2:9 “… I the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.”
Gen
2:10 “A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated
into four headwaters.”
Gen
2:11 “The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land
of Havilah, where there is gold…”
Gen
2:13 “The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds though the entire
land of Crush.”
Gen
2:14 “ The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east
side of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.”
So
we have a large oasis, the actual Garden of Eden, watered from the ground up
with enough volume to supply four rivers that wind their way through much of
the land.
Gen
2:16 “…God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;“
Gen
2:17 “but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
for… you will surely die.”
Gen
2:18 “… God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a
helper suitable for him.”
God
brings all of the beast of the fields and the birds of the air to Adam in Gen
2:19.
Adam
names all the creatures, but no suitable helper for Adam was found: Gen 2:20
Gen
2:21 “…God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and… took one of the
man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh.”
Gen
2:22 “… God made woman from the rib…”
Gen
2:23 “The man said, … she shall be called woman, for she was taken out of
man.”
Wait
just a minute. Didn’t we just read that God already made woman in is image.
Gen 1:27: So God created man
in his own image…. male and female he created them.”
I
Ponder why we are also have this version where surgery is performed on Adam
and his biological sample was manipulated into a woman. Biological manipulation
is an issue that is apart of our current cultural knowledge base. We understand
its possibilities and potentials as DNA manipulation or hybridization and fear
its potential ethical corruption related to the possibilities of human cloning.
The
suggestion of genetic manipulation once again causes me to Ponder the question,
if genetic make up helps to determine who we are and how we behave, could our
species be a programmable commodity?
Enter
the Serpent
Gen
3:1 “Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord
God had made. He said to the woman, ‘Did God really say…?
And
the justification the serpent uses to deceive Eve…
Gen
3:4 “’You will not surely die,’ the serpent said to the woman.”
Gen
3:5 “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and
you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Gen
3:6 “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and
pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and
ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her…”
Two
big things stand out to me here. The desire for wisdom and knowledge over immortality
and Adam was right there with her, perhaps the whole time.
After
they ate of the fruit, they became aware that they were actually naked and made
some type of clothing out of fig leaves, Gen 3:7. They hid from the Lord among
the trees because they were naked, Gen 3:8. However, God caught up to them and
immediately knew that they had bit into the forbidden fruit, Gen 3:9 – 11.
Gen
3:14 “So the Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, Cursed
are you …”
Gen
3:15 “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring
and hers…”
Some
translations say that the enmity is between Satan’s seed and Eve’s seed. It
is quite clear what is meant about the offspring of Eve, but just what in the
heck is the offspring of the serpent. ‘Satan’s seed’ is subject that is totally
avoided by our culturally conditioned concept of our Judeo-Christian Heritage,
but hopefully becomes a subject for much exploration before this exercise is
complete.
Gen
3:16 “To the woman he said.’ I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing…’”
Gen
3:17 “To Adam he said, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate from the
tree…. Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat
of it…”
Gen
3:18 “It will produce thorns and thistles for you…”
Gen
3:19 “By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to
the ground…. for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
Gen
3:22 “… God said,’ The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and
evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree
of life and eat, and live forever.’”
Gen
3:23 “So … God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground…”
Gen
3:24 “After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the garden
of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way
to the tree of life.”
Now
in my own personal cosmology there really cannot be any correlations between
geographical locations of the pre-deluvian area and today, but I Ponder the
concept of the East somehow becoming a boundary.
We
can assume that Adam and Eve went to the East, because God placed the cherubim
on the east side of the Garden. So, only three chapters into Genesis there is
already the groundwork for the concept of East verses west.
Isn’t the Garden, with its trees of knowledge and life on the west side
of the cherubim? Making the best and most desirable life in the west closest
to God’s garden. Additionally, notice that God just made man and let him loose,
so it sure didn’t take very long indeed for man to fall. God pushed us from
the Garden of Eden and prevented us from becoming immortal.
It
is almost as if man begins to de-evolve from his designed place in the universe
right from the beginning. There is a trend that develops as we go through this
story.
Cain
and Able
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So,
Adam and Eve leave the Garden and have two sons. Cain is the first-born, Gen
4:1, and Able is the second born and tends flock, while Cain worked the soil,
Gen 4:2. However, when the two siblings sacrificed to God the fruit of their
respective labors. God showed his preference to Abel’s offering.
My
memories of Sunday School are of Abel’s offering is one of his flock. Murdered,
bled, and perhaps burnt and Cain became upset enough to kill his brother Abel,
Gen 4:3 – 8. This is when God asked Cain about his brother, Cain replied with
the famous scriptural quotation;
Gen
4:9 “…Am I my brothers keeper?”
So
now, Cain is cursed and driven away to become a restless wander, Gen 4:11 –
14.
Cain is convicted of a crime – “Guilty of Murder!” Too bad that Cain didn’t have access to O. J. Simpson’s legal staff. Degrees of momentary insanity work for the Court Room heroes of television every day in our society, perhaps Cain saw that God likes Murderers and thought what better to win back Gods favor, but by sacrificing his own brother.
I
am not trying to minimise the story of Cain, or any of its implications. I just
want to make the point that there is always more than just one side of any story.
In
any case, I ponder the fact that from the very beginning of this story there
is a theme of God showing preference to one group over another. Then those two
sides begin to posture and war.
Seth,
the replacement son
Enoch,
Methuselah, and Noah
Gen
5:3. When Adam was 130 years, old he had another son Seth. Through Seth the
lineage continues to Noah. So even though Cain was the first-born, it is the
replacement son that carries out the Bible Story. The linage of Seth includes
some of the most famous names of the predeluvian area.
Enoch,
the father of Methuselah walked with God in heaven and eventually God took him
to heaven, at age 365, without Enoch having to die and as man, Gen 5:24. Methuselah
was the oldest and wisest man to ever live, only to die at an age of 969 years
old. Methuselah also fathered Lamech, who intern fathered the Noah of the great
flood.
One
of the most outstanding aspects of the fifth chapter of Genesis is the age of
the people mentioned. Adam lived 930 years. Seth lived 912 years. Enosh lived
905 years. Kenan lived 840 years. Jared, the father of Enoch, lived 962 years.
Lamech lived 777 years, and Noah was 500 years old before he had his sons.
What
a different place this era must have been. No rain, yet there is a great firmament
above. There is no rain, but instead, plants water from the ground up and people
live to incredible ages.
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The
Fallen Angles and the Nephilim
Now
the Bible Story tells us that some of the Fallen Angles come to Earth and married
any of the daughters of men that they choose, Gen 6:2.
Gen
6:4 “The Nephilim were on the earth in those days – and also afterward –
when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them.
They were the heroes of old, men of renown.”
Just
how else can we take this passage? The Fallen Angles produced hybrid children
with mortal women. Here we have another reference to children and pedigree.
Is this another genetic reference? Hybrid children, that are the product of
Angelic beings and mortal women, became the heroes of old and men of renown.
What an interesting race of creatures this must have been. There is more discussion
of the Nephilim in a following paper in this series: The Nephilim and the pre-deluvian
area.
Just
for the moment, imagine the Fallen Angles here on Earth. They are higher created
beings. They are Angles that have come into the Earth’s realm.
How much greater is their knowledge base than mankind’s. We mortal men
must have appeared extremely primitive indeed. What boundaries and rules would
they follow; after all they were arrogant enough to rebel in Heaven. How interesting,
that their past time was focused on genetic manipulation and hybridization.
Noah
and the Flood
Gen
6:5 (one verse later) “The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth
had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only
evil all the time.”
Gen
6:6 “The Lord was grieved that He had made man…”
Gen
6:7 “So the Lord said, ‘I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the
face of the earth…’”
Gen
6:8 “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.”
Gen
6:9 “… Noah was a righteous man blameless among the people of his time…”
He
was pure in his generations according to (need
footnote). Yet,
another genealogy reference to genetic purity, or at least, genetic heritage.
Gen
6:13 “So God said to Noah. ‘I am going to put an end to all people, for the
earth is filled with violence because of them….’”
Sort
of reminds you of today and current events, doesn’t it?
Gen
6:13 “’… I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.’”
God
didn’t say that he was going to really damage something; instead He is going
to destroy it. If you destroy something, it is completely undone.
We
all understand that the flood was to wipe out mankind, save Noah and family;
but notice here that the Earth is also to be destroyed. Both man and the Earth
are altered from their original form to something different.
Gen
6:14 God tells Noah, “… make yourself an ark …”
Gen
6:15 “This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75
feet wide and 45 feet high.”
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How
bold of ancient man to include such precise measurements. Just imagine how maritime
man of yesterday must have considered the dimension of the ark. Take Christopher
Columbus for example, his Santa Maria flagship was 2 feet shorter in overall
length than the ark was in height.
Mankind
never built ship to this scale until recent times. Consider the scale of the
ark: Width x length, 75 x 450, or 1 x 6. Interesting ratio when you discover
that it is the exact same average ratio, which modern super tankers and container
freighters are built to today. The ratio that been shown to be the absolute
most stable flotation platform. Not too bad for ancient man and it sure yields
a hint of creditability to the story. I closer investigation of the feasibility
of the Biblical Ark follows in a paper in this series, ‘Noah and Expanding Earth
Theory.’
Gen
6:20 “Two of every kind of … animal … will come to you to be kept alive.”
This
two by two progression to the ark of animals marching to the ark, as represented
in children books, may not be far from the reality. Some people forget the:
“You can’t see the forest because of all the tree syndrome,” and try to argue
that the ark wasn’t big enough, and of course, what about the dinosaurs? The
flood came to destroy the world and the creatures in it so a lot of creatures
didn’t make it. Even man didn’t make it, save Noah and kin. The point is that
every creature that showed up was to be “...kept alive.”
Gen
7:6 “Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.”
Gen
7:11 “… on the seventeenth day of the second month – on that day all the
springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were
opened”
Gen
7:12 “And the rain fell on the
earth forty days and forty nights.”
Gen
7:17 “For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth…”
Gen
7:19 the waters “… rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains
under the entire heavens were covered.”
In
fact –
Gen
7:20 “The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty
feet.”
Certainly
taking a stand on the flood being a global event verses a local phenomenon.
Gen
7:22 “Everything on the dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils
died.”
Gen
7:23 “… Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.”
Gen
7:24 “ The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.”
Gen
8:1 “But God remembered Noah and all … that were with him in the ark, and
sent a wind over the earth and the waters receded.”
Gen
8:3 “The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of 150 days the
water had gone down,”
Gen
8:4 “ and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest
in the mountains of Ararat.”
Doesn’t
say specifically the mountain of Ararat, but rather in the mountain range of
Ararat.
Gen
8:5 “The waters continued to recede … and on the first day of the tenth month
the tops of the mountains became visible.”
Gen
8:14 “By the twenty-seventh day the second month the earth was completely
dry.”
Gen
8:15 “…
God said, ’Come out of the ark…’”
So
all this time, I always had the flood story as forty days and nights – ha –
Noah and company spent at least one year and ten days inside the ark. What a
ride that must have been – not to mention waking up every morning to rhinoceros
breath.
God’s
covenant with Noah
Gen
9:1 “Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, ‘Be fruitful and
increase in number and fill the earth.”
Gosh,
there are over six billion people on the Earth today!
Gen
9:3 “Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave
you the green plants, I now give you everything.”
So,
before the flood man was a vegetarian only, but now we can eat virtually anything.
Today, if you look at the eating habits throughout the world, there really isn’t
much that doesn’t get eaten somewhere.
Evidence
that we are not the same man as the pre-deluvian people. Pre-deluvian man was
destroyed. Modern man almost seems to be if he has de-evolved into a different
species. Our life spans are certainly not the same, nor are our eating habits.
Once again moving away from that original creature Adam, the man that God made
in his image and walked with in the Garden.
Gen
9:6 “Whoever sheds the blood of a man, by man shall his blood be shed…”
This
is the perfect example, of social programming with a tendency toward violence
and specifically murder. Programming requires a program. Operating software,
if you will, say something subtle as perhaps a genetic imprint. Once again the
question appears, is man a programmable commodity?
Gen
9:11 “…Never again will all life be cut off from the waters of a flood; never
again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Again
the comment is made that two different things were destroyed, life, and the
earth. Just as modern man is a different creature than pre-deluvian man, the
Earth has also changed into a different place. Just look at what the rainbow
represents.
Gen
9:13 “I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant
between me and the earth.”
So,
the covenant with Noah is that we are now de-evolved violent carnivores, with
greatly shortened life spans; but the rainbow is actually an apology to the
Earth.
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Ham,
genetics, and cultural heritage
Once
Noah was re-established on land, he planted a vineyard and made some wine, which
must have been pretty good because,
Gen
9:21 “When he drank some … he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.
Gen
9:22 “But Hamm, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness …”
Gen
9:24 “When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had
done to him, “
Gen
9:25 “he said, ‘Cursed be Canaan…”
The
curse is that line of Canaan will be slaves to the descendants of Hamm’s two
brothers, Gen 9:25 – 27.
Gen
9:28 “After the flood Noah lived 350 years.”
Why
is this story worthy of surviving abridgment? For me, it is another insight
into the genetic imprinting of modern man. According to the Bible Story, only
eight people survived the flood, Noah, his three sons and the wives to these
four men. Outside literature, specifically the Hebrew Mid Rash, defined as the
body of ancient Hebrew writing that didn’t find its way into scripture, talks
about Hamm having other behavior problems the ark. Problems possibly of a sexual
nature and it is this outside literature that people use to skew Hamm’s transgression
into some type of homosexual occurrence.
The
point that jumps out at me is that of the gene pool God chose to repopulate
the earth, 1/8th was pre-dispose to behavior problems. Sort of reminds
me of today and current world events.
The
second point that jumps out is the name Canaan. Canaan becomes the bad guy.
Canaan’s defendants are ones that become oppressed. Sounds a little like Cain
from the first age of man. As we read on there are many Canaanites to deal with
throughout the story. Just as the Fallen Angels oppressed man in the first era,
here a group is selected out to be the recipients of a new era of oppression.
Finally,
I ponder the reality of Noah living so long after the flood. How many descendants
would he have had in 350 years? Wouldn’t he be revered as the grandfather of
everyone? Just imagine all those grandfatherly stories about the days before
the flood. Then once a large enough population base began retelling these stories,
over and over, they have become our multicultural heritage link to the pre-deluvian
era.
Remembering
back to the days when Enoch walked with God, back in the days when Methuselah
lived to be the oldest and wisest man on the planet, and a firmament covered
the Earth. There was no rain in those days, but the waters sprang up from the
ground to water the entire planet and forming four major rivers. Higher created
beings, Fallen Angels, came to Earth's surface and just corrupted creation by
both genetically interfering with man, and instigating wickedness. How would
higher created beings act if there were here in our reality? They would be immortal,
Fallen Angels, that have been in Heaven and know the truth of our reality, possess
an amazing knowledge base, and possibly possess powers or abilities beyond mans
capabilities, creatures that are arrogant enough to rise up against God. Wouldn’t
they pass themselves off as gods to us? Evidently we couldn’t stop them from
experimenting on us as a species. Having children with mortal women that were
heroes and men of renown. Isn’t that the Hercules story? Didn’t Zeus have is
way with a mortal woman and Hercules was born and became both a hero and a man
of renown. Perhaps the gods of the Greek and Romans have a place in history
after all.
Then
there is Methuselah, the oldest and wisest man that ever lived on the planet
and a man that died at an age of 969 years old. I know that Hollywood has us
all thinking that everyone from this time period was a simple dessert dweller
with nothing but a sheep and a camel, but it is hard for me to picture Methuselah
this way at all. After 900 years or so don’t you think that he had indoor plumbing?
It was Methuselah’s father Enoch that walked with God. Enoch went into
Heaven for a while as God’s guest. I am sure he returned with many secrets of
the universe. We know for sure that some of the population of the Earth has
superior knowledge, because they fell from Heaven and we are told they at least
had technology enough for genetic experimentation. This doesn’t sound like a
primitive people at all! But yet, this advanced civilization sank beneath the
ocean cause by the flood. Remind you of any other Greek story of old. Perhaps
of a technologically advanced society that also sank beneath the ocean told
by Plato and named Atlantis.
These
are just some of the things I Ponder. Some people may say that I am really stretching
things here, but if there is one central truth to it all; then I suggest that
no factual evidence anywhere can degnie that truth.
The
tower of Babel
Gen
11:1 “Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.”
This
certainly would explain how pre-deluvian stories became common to all peoples.
Gen
11:2 “As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.”
Once
again the Bible Story is moving East.
Gen
11:4 “…’Come let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches into
the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves…’”
To
me, this is one of the most puzzling items of Judeao-Christian Heritage. This
doesn’t seem to be anything like those old Sunday School pictorials of the bunch
of, desert dwellers, building a rugged looking stone masonry tower. To
me, this sound much more like these guys wanted to build a complex. A city sized
research complex dedicated to exploration. Dedicated to understanding and connecting
with the universe. Why? - for the benefit of the species! Isn’t this the same
goal as modern man desiring to colonize space, or organizing a One World Government?
Isn't
the desire to grow and achieve another one of those genetically imprinted survival
instincts? As Tennyson would say," ... Tho' much is taken, much abides;
and tho' we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven,
that which we are, we are -- One equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by
time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not
to yield." Or as my generation would say, "To boldly go where no man
has gone before."
Gen
11:6 “The Lord said, ‘If as one people speaking the same language they have
begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.’”
This
is another big piece to my puzzle. If God created us and he is our Father, then
why in the world wouldn’t the above statement make Him proud? Even with all
the de-evolution away from the original man, Adam, and even with all of the
impediments placed in our way, man still pulled together as one people and strived
for greatness, but what does our Father have to say?
Gen
11:7 “Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand
each other.”
Gen
11:8 “So the Lord scattered them from there over the earth, and they stopped
building the city.”
For
a third time God directly intervenes in the development of mankind by once again
stunting our potential and completing our de-evolution. Some people claim to
have so called reasons to be mad at God about something or another, but if I
had to pick one this would be it. I know that I must till the soil for my food
and I can never return to the Garden of Eden, but why can I not live up to my
potential.
Is
there some genetic control over us as a species? Sure opens up the possibility
to the concept of Cognitive Closure and the idea that we are programmed so that
there are just some things we cannot know. A level of growth and achievement
we cannot attain.
Imagine if let alone, our species may have been space faring for centuries by now. Just look at how much progress we have achieved as a species over the last few hundred years and we made it to the moon, and beyond. We could all be praising the Lord from several quadrants of the galaxy by now. Evidently, God didn’t want that to happen either.
Ponder the possibilities. The Nations of Ishmael setteled the quadrants to the East of course. The Gentials setteled the quadrants to the West. Earth becomes the home planet to the Nation of Israel, and the eventual Battel of Armageddon plays out on a glactic scale.
