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Originally Posted by JR
they created a whole new type of mathematics called "biblical math" which allows the book of genesis to more or less jive with the fossile record and history of the earth. sounds like a dumb joke... but its not.
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I wish you had been joking too.
It's really wild when one goes to a history site (that's based on history, not from the prospective of religion) and tries their best to compare historical fact with Bible facts (just to see what jives and what doesn't) because they end up having (pun intended) a hell of a time as Moses, Abraham and the rest of the "grand old fathers" in the early books of the Bible are said to have lived for 700-900 years each!
Mind you, so were the first founders of Babylon and other "first ancients". I think in the retelling of early history, it seemed to give one's culture more credence somehow by having the first kings and founders living for milleniums. And natch, the Bible writers kept that tradition in their writings and history too.