"... take care of it." -Genesis 2:15.

mushmouse wrote:God's assignment for humankind was to be earth's caretakers. -Genesis 2:15.

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mushmouse wrote:God's assignment for humankind was to be earth's caretakers. -Genesis 2:15.

GasGuzzler wrote:

mushmouse wrote:God's assignment for humankind was to be earth's caretakers. -Genesis 2:15.

Wait...I thought this was my assignment for the earth.

Now be fruitful and multiply, and repopulate the earth." (Genesis 9:7)

IBdaMann wrote:

GasGuzzler wrote:

mushmouse wrote:God's assignment for humankind was to be earth's caretakers. -Genesis 2:15.

Wait...I thought this was my assignment for the earth.

Now be fruitful and multiply, and repopulate the earth." (Genesis 9:7)

I'm curious, how could the earth be repopulated if it had never before been populated?

Perhaps this was not God's first go at this, eh?

GasGuzzler wrote:

IBdaMann wrote:

GasGuzzler wrote:

mushmouse wrote:God's assignment for humankind was to be earth's caretakers. -Genesis 2:15.

Wait...I thought this was my assignment for the earth.

Now be fruitful and multiply, and repopulate the earth." (Genesis 9:7)

I'm curious, how could the earth be repopulated if it had never before been populated?

Perhaps this was not God's first go at this, eh?

You know this one, Bible Troll. This was God's asignment to me right after the Great Climate Change Flood of Genesis 8. Muver Erff DID need to be REpopulated. Have you done your due diligence?

...and don't go off telling me the entire earth wasn't yet populated. The area populated that God wiped out was just a micro climate representative of the macro climate which IS the global climate. Duh?

IBdaMann wrote:

GasGuzzler wrote:

IBdaMann wrote:

GasGuzzler wrote:

mushmouse wrote:God's assignment for humankind was to be earth's caretakers. -Genesis 2:15.

Wait...I thought this was my assignment for the earth.

Now be fruitful and multiply, and repopulate the earth." (Genesis 9:7)

I'm curious, how could the earth be repopulated if it had never before been populated?

Perhaps this was not God's first go at this, eh?

You know this one, Bible Troll. This was God's asignment to me right after the Great Climate Change Flood of Genesis 8. Muver Erff DID need to be REpopulated. Have you done your due diligence?

...and don't go off telling me the entire earth wasn't yet populated. The area populated that God wiped out was just a micro climate representative of the macro climate which IS the global climate. Duh?

We (and that includes Sven), stand corrected.

That flood gave Climate one heck of an enema. Is that what they found on Mt. Ararat?

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Into the Night wrote:Personally, I don't think they found the Ark there. Being made of wood and probably containing a year's worth of poo in it, it would have long ago rotted away.

Into the Night wrote:Probably not a pleasant journey.

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:Personally, I don't think they found the Ark there. Being made of wood and probably containing a year's worth of poo in it, it would have long ago rotted away.

I disagree. I'm thinking that if I were Noah, there probably wasn't a whole heckuva lot to do on that ark ... so Noah probably had his family pulling clean-up duty in shifts, and they probably shovelled the poo over the side rather than allow it to accumulate.

Sure, it would be a lot of work, but when there is absolutely nothing to do in cramped quarters, people jump at any opportunity to keep from going out of their minds.

Poo clean-up was all that was going on. I can't see how it wouldn't happen.

... unless ... Noah got the sinking feeling "Wait, didn't anyone bring the shovels? Ham, I specifically asked you to load them with the elephants! Japheth, you were supposed to do the final inventory cross-check. Shem, stop smirking, you're not blameless in all this! Well, it looks like some of us are just going to have to use our hands, now. Well, don't just sit there like a pile of chaff, ... get crack'n."

Into the Night wrote:Probably not a pleasant journey.

That's what I'm thinking.

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mushmouse wrote:
God's assignment for humankind was to be earth's caretakers. -Genesis 2:15.

If you would like to live when litterbugs and polluters no longer inhabitant the earth please contact me at the following: quadjoseph@aol.com

PS. Please forward this message to anyone you know (relatives, neighbors, co-workers, enemies, etc.) who read and do not read "the holy Scriptures." -Romans 1:2. quadjoseph@aol.com

Into the Night wrote:You are probably right about how they handled the poo, but do you think a wooden ship lasted all these years?

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:You are probably right about how they handled the poo, but do you think a wooden ship lasted all these years?

Now I have to ask ... if God was helping Noah build the ark, I see nothing to prevent God from slipping in a little fiberglass, nomsayn?

Swan wrote:

mushmouse wrote:
God's assignment for humankind was to be earth's caretakers. -Genesis 2:15.

If you would like to live when litterbugs and polluters no longer inhabitant the earth please contact me at the following: quadjoseph@aol.com

PS. Please forward this message to anyone you know (relatives, neighbors, co-workers, enemies, etc.) who read and do not read "the holy Scriptures." -Romans 1:2. quadjoseph@aol.com

Nope god said that we could do with the Earth as we see fit because we had dominion over everything.

Swan wrote:
Now I am not necessarily agreeing with that, but this is what the bible says.

Swan wrote:
Wait there are 500 versions of the bible so was God a schizzo too? or was the bible written by retards eating locust

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:You are probably right about how they handled the poo, but do you think a wooden ship lasted all these years?

First, I don't think the waters prevailing 15 cubits would be sufficient to elevate an ark to the 3500 meters elevation needed to lay it on the side of Mt. Ararat.

However, as to whether such a wooden ark could last all these years, well, it is certainly possible if it were somehow buried and petrified.

Now I have to ask ... if God was helping Noah build the ark, I see nothing to prevent God from slipping in a little fiberglass, nomsayn? It would have spared Noah from having to say "Hey, put out that fire! What are you, nuts? I realize you want to fry up some bacon but we can't have ... wait! ... where'd you get the bacon?"

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GasGuzzler wrote:

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:You are probably right about how they handled the poo, but do you think a wooden ship lasted all these years?

Now I have to ask ... if God was helping Noah build the ark, I see nothing to prevent God from slipping in a little fiberglass, nomsayn?

If this is correct, and I see no reason why not, then we're going to need this posted on the Ark. Rumor on the street is that Noah was very anal about OSHA regulation compliance. Why do you think it took 70 years to build the damn thing? I hear he was constantly misplacing is harness or safety glasses.


As you should've known Bible Troll, they didn't even have fiberglass back then. Duh?

GasGuzzler wrote:As you should've known Bible Troll, they didn't even have fiberglass back then. Duh?

GasGuzzler wrote:Rumor on the street is that Noah was very anal about OSHA regulation compliance.

GasGuzzler wrote:Why do you think it took 70 years to build the damn thing?

Into the Night wrote:God didn't help Noah build the Ark.

Into the Night wrote:He simply commanded him to build it,

Into the Night wrote:specifying the wood, how to seal it, it's size and general structure.

Into the Night wrote:Noah had to build his own Ark!

Into the Night wrote:The 15 cubits upward is measured from...where?

Into the Night wrote:

Swan wrote:

mushmouse wrote:
God's assignment for humankind was to be earth's caretakers. -Genesis 2:15.

If you would like to live when litterbugs and polluters no longer inhabitant the earth please contact me at the following: quadjoseph@aol.com

PS. Please forward this message to anyone you know (relatives, neighbors, co-workers, enemies, etc.) who read and do not read "the holy Scriptures." -Romans 1:2. quadjoseph@aol.com

Nope god said that we could do with the Earth as we see fit because we had dominion over everything.

We don't. God never said any such thing. Can we change the orbit of the Earth? Can we control the weather? Can we freeze the Earth's core? Can we make plants grow in the thermosphere?

No.

Swan wrote:
Now I am not necessarily agreeing with that, but this is what the bible says.

It isn't what the Bible says.

Swan wrote:
Wait there are 500 versions of the bible so was God a schizzo too? or was the bible written by retards eating locust

God didn't write all 500 versions, dumbass. Man did.

IBdaMann wrote:God has always had fiberglass. He gave some to his worshipers in Syria and Cilicia, as recounted in Galatians, and it was totally unknown to them (for good reason) or to the churches of Judaea which were in Christ.

God not having fiberglass? What were you thinking?

IBdaMann wrote:
Between the hamstringing Teamsters regulations, OSHA mandates and Japheth being more concerned about chasing chicks than with helping out with the ark, it's a wonder that it ever got built.

GasGuzzler wrote:

IBdaMann wrote:God has always had fiberglass. He gave some to his worshipers in Syria and Cilicia, as recounted in Galatians, and it was totally unknown to them (for good reason) or to the churches of Judaea which were in Christ.

God not having fiberglass? What were you thinking?

You sure about this? I'll check with Google and see if it is what we know.

IBdaMann wrote:
Between the hamstringing Teamsters regulations, OSHA mandates and Japheth being more concerned about chasing chicks than with helping out with the ark, it's a wonder that it ever got built.

Yeah, I heard that Japheth was a real dirt bag. He got a sweet deal on an early retirement pension that he barely worked for. Then the damn fool bought a moraine riding pedal bike just to impress the chicks and wouldn't even help dad build a boat. He would just text his friends and say, "My dad wants help again....WAAAAAAAAAAAAA". LAMO ...but this is mostly just hearsay.


...and a total side note here. I disagree with your previous assertion that boredom was a huge problem on the Ark. On the contrary, Noah was quite a crafty fella and I'm sure he built a water slide or two out of driftwood. I bet he even made a set of rope rings that children could be dared to try and cross the "Pool of Poo".
After all, Noah has been linked to waterparks (https://www.noahsarkwaterpark.com/) so this IS what we know.

Spongy Iris wrote:
How does the garden of Eden dress himself?

GasGuzzler wrote:

Spongy Iris wrote:
How does the garden of Eden dress himself?

Wait! How is a garden gender specific?
Last I was told a woman could not even be defined...but now a garden has junk and is a he. So confused.

GasGuzzler wrote:You sure about this? I'll check with Google and see if it is what we know.

GasGuzzler wrote:...and a total side note here. I disagree with your previous assertion that boredom was a huge problem on the Ark.

GasGuzzler wrote: On the contrary, Noah was quite a crafty fella

GasGuzzler wrote:and I'm sure he built a water slide or two out of driftwood.

GasGuzzler wrote:I bet he even made a set of rope rings that children could be dared to try and cross the "Pool of Poo"."

GasGuzzler wrote:After all, Noah has been linked to waterparks

IBdaMann wrote:
Is your assertion based on the sheer quantity of things to do on an ark? ... like cow tipping, perhaps.

IBdaMann wrote:
On that point, when tipping cows, do you typically leave 15% or closer to 20%?

IBdaMann wrote:
Now if Noah really were quick on the uptake he would have installed an Olympic diving platform. It was a perfect opportunity wasted.

GasGuzzler wrote:You are failing to consider the vast quantities of available driftwood and what it allows for.

GasGuzzler wrote:You also fail to consider the micro climate inside the Ark.

GasGuzzler wrote:Make a stick horse, carve out and make a log ride, or craft a sharp cattle prod. The possibilities are endless.

IBdaMann wrote:
you and I began discussing log rides and swinging rings and water slides and diving platforms, ... and it made me realize that the ark was more of a floating amusement park ...

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:God didn't help Noah build the Ark.

How do you know? My understanding is that God can be pretty helpful at times, and God clearly had an interest in getting that ark completed.

You don't think that when Noah was having some trouble positioning one of the two-ton beams that God didn't say "Pssst, hey, Noah ... just look over there for a moment, ... or close your eyes for a sec"?

Into the Night wrote:specifying the wood, how to seal it, it's size and general structure.

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:Noah had to build his own Ark!

I'm not so sure about that. If God wants a project to move along, he's not going to let random setbacks creep in ... since He controls all that.

... and Noah was selected for his righteousness, not because he was somehow the brightest bulb in the pack. I'm reasonably certain that God had to say "Noah, look over there for a moment" on quite a few occasions, whenever Noah wasn't quite grasping what he needed to do.

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:The 15 cubits upward is measured from...where?

It is measured from normal sea level. 15 cubits is the distance the waters prevailed. It's what we know.

Into the Night wrote:What two ton beams?? Did you know that people move whole fallen trees around with little more than a lever or two?

Into the Night wrote:Why would it be? It was a unit of measure for Noah, though.

IBdaMann wrote:You are assuming Noah was stupid????!?

IBdaMann wrote:No, it's not.

IBdaMann wrote:A scripture right next to that one says the mountains were covered.

IBdaMann wrote:Perhaps a measurement of the waterline on the Ark itself?Remember the Ark was 30 cubits in height.

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:What two ton beams?? Did you know that people move whole fallen trees around with little more than a lever or two?

People move fallen trees with heavy equipment ...

... or they cut them into smaller pieces ...

Into the Night wrote:Why would it be? It was a unit of measure for Noah, though.

God likes cubits. You can't deny that. God doesn't ever use the metric system or standard, ... only cubits. No one can show any other unit as being God's official unit of measure.

IBdaMann wrote:You are assuming Noah was stupid????!?

Nope. I am assuming that Noah was selected for his righteousness.

Why do you believe that Noah was selected for his brilliance?

Why do you believe that God isn't helpful?

IBdaMann wrote:No, it's not.

Yes, that's what it means for waters to "prevail", i.e. to rise.

The waters rose 15 cubits.

IBdaMann wrote:A scripture right next to that one says the mountains were covered.

So you have a contradiction. You have a hard, fast measurement vs potential human exaggeration exacerbated by word-of-mouth over many generations ...

... so the logical interpretation is to go with the hard, fast measurement and to understand that those 15 cubits were perceived/recounted as humans normally like to tell stories. If you are sitting on a boat whereby you can't see the shore ... and you possibly believe that the earth is flat ... well you would certainly believe that "all the high mountains were covered."

... or you could pick the "God doesn't know how to measure" interpretation, but I recommend just going with the 15 cubit prevalence of the waters and recall how people normally speak.

IBdaMann wrote:Perhaps a measurement of the waterline on the Ark itself?Remember the Ark was 30 cubits in height.

Exactly. You always need to remember the scale being discussed. Genesis felt it necessary to mention that there was so much water that the ark was actually lifted off the earth (began to float). 15 cubits will do that.

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Swan wrote:Genesis is a bible verse, as such it is not capable of feeling

IBDaMann Version, Genesis 7

1. God says to Noah "You were righteous therefore I'm going to spare you and your family.

2. God commanded Noah to gather 7 pairs of clean beasts and two pairs of unclean beasts.

3. God commanded Noah to gather 7 pairs of all birds

4. God gave Noah seven days to do it all before he was going to make it rain big time and was going to unmake all that he had made

5. Noah did it all!

6. Noah was 600 years old when the flooding began. In fact, Noah was on his 17th day of the second month of his 600 jubilee when the rain started ... but we have to piece this information together from separate verses.

7. Noah noticed the rain starting and had his family climb into the ark. Good call on his part.

8. Of all the animals that Noah had gathered ...

9. ... they entered the ark in pairs "unto Noah" which means "after him" and "to him into the ark."

10. True to His word, God made it rain after seven days.

11. Noah is on the 17th day of his second month of his 600th year.

12. It rained for forty days and forty nights. The flood waters, however, remained prevailed for 150 days we will learn at the very end of chapter 7.

13. Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth, the sons of Noah, Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them all entered the ark on the same day. We do not know if this is a comprehensive list, only that the aforementioned individuals definitely made it onto the ark.

14. All the animals entered afterwards. It's not clear who guided the animals since Noah and family were all onboard at this time. One possibility is that there were other people, possibly hired hands, who also rode on the ark after guiding the animals aboard.

15. They that entered the ark entered in pairs.

16. All entered the ark as God commanded and God shut the door behind them all, shutting them in.

17. It rained for forty days and forty nights, dropping enough water to lift the ark off the ground (re: 15 cubits)

18. ... and the ark was floating because the waters were prevailing

19. ... the waters prevailed and the hills were covered

20. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. This only seems reconcilable as a characterization of someone on the ark, i.e. how it appeared:

21. All living things and all men died, leaving open the possibility that some women survived ... but we know that every man died.

22. All women died as well.

23. Everything that was on dry land perished, except for Noah and those with him. We still don't have a comprehensive list of who those all were.

24. The waters prevailed for 150 days.

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:What two ton beams?? Did you know that people move whole fallen trees around with little more than a lever or two?

People move fallen trees with heavy equipment ...

... or they cut them into smaller pieces ...

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:Why would it be? It was a unit of measure for Noah, though.

God likes cubits. You can't deny that. God doesn't ever use the metric system or standard, ... only cubits. No one can show any other unit as being God's official unit of measure.

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:You are assuming Noah was stupid????!?

Nope. I am assuming that Noah was selected for his righteousness.

Why do you believe that Noah was selected for his brilliance?

Why do you believe that God isn't helpful?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No, you cannot make that compositional error fallacy. You won't get away with that!

IBdaMann wrote:No, it's not.

Yes, that's what it means for waters to "prevail", i.e. to rise.

The waters rose 15 cubits.

IBdaMann wrote:

IBdaMann wrote:A scripture right next to that one says the mountains were covered.

So you have a contradiction. You have a hard, fast measurement vs potential human exaggeration exacerbated by word-of-mouth over many generations ...

... so the logical interpretation is to go with the hard, fast measurement and to understand that those 15 cubits were perceived/recounted as humans normally like to tell stories. If you are sitting on a boat whereby you can't see the shore ... and you possibly believe that the earth is flat ... well you would certainly believe that "all the high mountains were covered."

... or you could pick the "God doesn't know how to measure" interpretation, but I recommend just going with the 15 cubit prevalence of the waters and recall how people normally speak.

IBdaMann wrote:

IBdaMann wrote:Perhaps a measurement of the waterline on the Ark itself?Remember the Ark was 30 cubits in height.

Exactly. You always need to remember the scale being discussed. Genesis felt it necessary to mention that there was so much water that the ark was actually lifted off the earth (began to float). 15 cubits will do that.

IBdaMann wrote:

Swan wrote:Genesis is a bible verse, as such it is not capable of feeling

Genesis is a book expressing a story. Genesis found it necessary to express that there was enough water to actually lift the ark off the ground.

I'll presume this is all new to you.

I'll bring you up to speed.

IBDaMann Version, Genesis 7

1. God says to Noah "You were righteous therefore I'm going to spare you and your family.

2. God commanded Noah to gather 7 pairs of clean beasts and two pairs of unclean beasts.

3. God commanded Noah to gather 7 pairs of all birds

4. God gave Noah seven days to do it all before he was going to make it rain big time and was going to unmake all that he had made

5. Noah did it all!

6. Noah was 600 years old when the flooding began. In fact, Noah was on his 17th day of the second month of his 600 jubilee when the rain started ... but we have to piece this information together from separate verses.

7. Noah noticed the rain starting and had his family climb into the ark. Good call on his part.

8. Of all the animals that Noah had gathered ...

9. ... they entered the ark in pairs "unto Noah" which means "after him" and "to him into the ark."

10. True to His word, God made it rain after seven days.

11. Noah is on the 17th day of his second month of his 600th year.

12. It rained for forty days and forty nights. The flood waters, however, remained prevailed for 150 days we will learn at the very end of chapter 7.

13. Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth, the sons of Noah, Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them all entered the ark on the same day. We do not know if this is a comprehensive list, only that the aforementioned individuals definitely made it onto the ark.

14. All the animals entered afterwards. It's not clear who guided the animals since Noah and family were all onboard at this time. One possibility is that there were other people, possibly hired hands, who also rode on the ark after guiding the animals aboard.

15. They that entered the ark entered in pairs.

16. All entered the ark as God commanded and God shut the door behind them all, shutting them in.

17. It rained for forty days and forty nights, dropping enough water to lift the ark off the ground (re: 15 cubits)

18. ... and the ark was floating because the waters were prevailing

19. ... the waters prevailed and the hills were covered

20. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. This only seems reconcilable as a characterization of someone on the ark, i.e. how it appeared:

21. All living things and all men died, leaving open the possibility that some women survived ... but we know that every man died.

22. All women died as well.

23. Everything that was on dry land perished, except for Noah and those with him. We still don't have a comprehensive list of who those all were.

24. The waters prevailed for 150 days.

This is what Genesis needed to express.



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Into the Night wrote:Special pleading fallacy.

Into the Night wrote:Wups. People can and do move fallen trees around with nothing but a lever or two.

Into the Night wrote: You think they used modern tractors to place the stones for the pyramids????!?

Into the Night wrote:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! There WAS NO METRIC SYSTEM when the Bible was being written!

Into the Night wrote:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No, you cannot make that compositional error fallacy. You won't get away with that!

Into the Night wrote:

IBdaMann wrote:No, it's not. Yes, that's what it means for waters to "prevail", i.e. to rise. The waters rose 15 cubits.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You forget that this passage was originally in Hebrew, and that the origin point (zero) was NEVER SPECIFIED!

Into the Night wrote:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! How do you know??????!? Did you actually WEIGH THE ARK?????!?

Into the Night wrote:What makes you think he even HAS an official measuring system???????!?

Swan wrote:You are clueless as usual.

Swan wrote: While it is true that Genesis is part of a book,

Swan wrote: it finds nothing necessary to express.

Swan wrote: See kid only the book's author could do that,

Swan wrote:as books do not write themselves.

Spongy Iris wrote: You douche bag's have some gall!

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:Special pleading fallacy.

Nope. Check the pics. People do use heavy equipment to move fallen trees, or they cut them into smaller pieces.

IBdaMann wrote:
I'll buy your argument that they don't when you can support it.

IBdaMann wrote:
In the meantime, people building arks/ships don't cut the beams, once fashioned, into smaller pieces just to move them around.

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:Wups. People can and do move fallen trees around with nothing but a lever or two.

Not really. If they don't have equipment to move them they cut them into smaller pieces and move the pieces.

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote: You think they used modern tractors to place the stones for the pyramids????!?

Nope. Stones were loaded onto wheeled wagons.

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! There WAS NO METRIC SYSTEM when the Bible was being written!

You seem to be under the impression that God couldn't use any unit of measure he chose. Is that your belief?

You acknowledge that God chose Noah to be saved but reject the idea that God could choose how to express lengths/measurements?

IBdaMann wrote:
I think that's a pretty strange position to have. I say that God prefers cubits. The Bible backs me up.

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No, you cannot make that compositional error fallacy. You won't get away with that!

There is no compositional error.

IBdaMann wrote:
1) I am assuming God selected Noah for his righteousness, per Genesis 7:1

2) You are presuming Noah was brilliant.

IBdaMann wrote:
Humans do not intuitively know how to build arks/ships,

IBdaMann wrote:
yet you believe Noah would never be confused about any aspect of the project.

IBdaMann wrote:
Your position is not supported by anything in the Bible.

IBdaMann wrote:
3) You insist that God simply did not help Noah at all, per #2 above. You insist that God would not lift a finger to assist in any way. How do you know this? This notion is not supported in the Bible.

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:

IBdaMann wrote:No, it's not. Yes, that's what it means for waters to "prevail", i.e. to rise. The waters rose 15 cubits.

From where? What is zero? This measurement is MEANINGLESS unless you define a point of origin. The moment you do, you are not ASSUMING again, and your position is NOT supported by the bible any more than mine is!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You forget that this passage was originally in Hebrew, and that the origin point (zero) was NEVER SPECIFIED!

IBdaMann wrote:
Do you know where that was? The Bible doesn't say.

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! How do you know??????!? Did you actually WEIGH THE ARK?????!?

I don't have to.

IBdaMann wrote:
The Bible tells me in Genesis 7:18 that the ark floated. The Bible tells me in Genesis 7:20 that the waters prevailed 15 cubits.

Apparently, according to the Bible, 15 cubits was sufficient to make the ark float. ... unless you don't trust the Bible.

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:What makes you think he even HAS an official measuring system???????!?

His strong preference for cubits is what convinced me God has his own NIST going on. When God outsources, he insists on cubits. I'm not one to question why.

IBdaMann wrote:

Swan wrote:You are clueless as usual.

You are delusional, as usual.

Swan wrote: While it is true that Genesis is part of a book,

Nope. Genesis is a book, specifically the book of Genesis.

If you're feeling stupid right now, don't worry, it's totally appropriate.

Swan wrote: it finds nothing necessary to express.

Yes, the book of Genesis has a definite need to express the contents therein.

Swan wrote: See kid only the book's author could do that,

Exactly. The book of Genesis is the word and expression of its author, and needs to express what it needs to express.

Swan wrote:as books do not write themselves.

When the day arrives that your English comprehension surpasses the third-grade level, you will understand that "write" and "express" are not the same word.

But you go on babbling as usual.