: I can appreciate the humour man.: : The kind that has children stoned to death by their neighbors and peers for uttering the Lord's name?
:Lark: Well I can only say that that was mans actions not God's....
DDN: Man's actions under the COMMAND of God:
Lev.24
[23] So Moses spoke to the people of Israel; and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. Thus the people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
God didn't want to get his hands dirty? So what? Left to their own devices, the humans involved in this episode probably would have opted for a spanking.
:DDN: The kind that sits down to a pancake breakfast in the desert with Abraham for detonating a nuclear device in the city of Sodom?
:Lark: Hold on man if I found a city that was fond of practicing sexual torture and male rape gave it every chance to change and it refused and then had the opportunity to detonate a nuke over it, what do you reckon I'd do?
DDN: Point taken, but PANCAKES??!! Come on. And walking through the desert?! Why does God need to walk in order to get to Sodom? And why does he need to stop and eat first? I'm sorry, this sounds so rediculous? How are we supposed to believe that Jehova is the supreme all-powerful creator of the universe with laughable accounts like this peppering the bible? That's my main point here.
:DDN: Or how about the kind that comes from another planet to make us mine gold then splits leaving us only with an archaic, errant book that has us permanently confined to a dome covered flat earth?
:Lark: I'm not familiar with this theory, is it the one formulated in 'Chariots of the Gods' about the human race being the descendents of some 'angelic' alien race?
DDN: No, its not just sensationalized psuedo-pop-science. There's abundant scholarly research and evidence to support alien intervention theories of the bible. 'Chariots of the Gods' is just the commercialized epidermic speculative layer of such research. You'd probably really enjoy reading the works of Zecharia Sitchin, one of the leading proponents of alien theories. He's a renowned and seasoned researcher and has authored many books documenting his findings. His theories are facinating if nothing else. He believes that an alien race needed gold dust to restore their planet's damaged atmosphere and that humans are primarily the descendents of their gold mining slaves.
These were the kinds of impressions I had myself when studying the bible and that was before I'd ever even heard of Sitchin. Alien theories of this sort certainly would explain the confused, hostile, and manipulative nature of "Jehova" and maybe even "God's" obsession with gold. Now we have bloodless cattle mutilations linked with UFO sitings. Could this phenomena be a vestige of Jehova's equally bizarre obsession with animal blood, flesh, sacrifice, etc.? I guess I can't help but entertain such ideas; I just find it so profoundly hilarious that we might be some apathetic alien's abandon little pets and that the authoring of one of our primary operating manuals (the Holy Bible) was our lame attempt to make some sense out of our enslavement.
Other researches have noted that certain aspects of our anatomy suggest that humans are not even indigenous to Earth. I'm sure Sitchin must address this also. One theory says that modern humans are actually alien/ape hybrids, which make the gold mining theory even more interesting and would explain some key contraversial verses in genesis regarding our origins.
