God, Aliens, and Other Stuff

Consideration of ancient texts is not abandoning faith This post is a continuation on the topic of Robert Best’s book, Noah’s Ark and the Ziusudra Epic. He has accomplished 3 important tasks in his book. One of them is the study below in which phrases from the six Flood recensions are shown beyond all doubt to be connected to one another. The original story was most likely the Sumerian epic in the Sumerian language, written in cuneiform on clay tablets. As the story moved from there to Assyria and Babylon, written in Akkadian, then to the Hebrew Genesis account, the name of the hero changes to reflect current national names of the day. The gods change, and other details are added and dropped out. One thing becomes clear…the Genesis author knew of the other stories. He Hebraized the story to convey Israelite monotheistic theology. The Genesis account is not literal inerrant history dictated by God. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a fabulous story with a great message. I still consider it...

It's best to not think about it In 1999 a computer expert and inventor with a BS in Physics self-published one of the best books on Noah and the Ark that you’ve never heard of and probably haven’t read. But if you are interested in Old Testament studies, you should put this volume on your shelf, especially in light of the recent Hollywood rendition of the story. It’s called Noah’s Ark and the Ziusudra Epic, published by Enlil Press, distributed by Eisenbraun, a well-established publisher of scholarly works on the Ancient Middle East (ANE). The author, Robert MacAndrews Best, spent years researching and designing it. In a future post, I will give a little bio of Mr. Best , who is still alive at this writing, but in this post, I want to tell you why you should read it if you are at all interested in the story of Noah’s Ark. In my fundamentalist, inerrant days (the Bible is truth without error and was pretty much dictated by God and reflects His thinking without being diluted by...

This post is based on an article published here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38604.htm#.U4KPi7XJgb4.email Frank Schaeffer is the author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back. He also wrote, Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God. An ex-pat from his fundamentalist roots, Schaeffer is writing from frustration bordering on anger. I’m not an expert on his viewpoints, but he seems to be saying, “Why did you waste so much of my life with thoughtless, shallow, religious nonsense?” In the article above, sent to me by a friend, he lists the many instances in the life of Jesus where Jesus broke the rules, mostly ritual regulations elucidated in the Book of Leviticus. These imperatives involve the purity laws in the Torah/Pentateuch [the first 5 books of the Bible]. In the Law of Moses, one could be ‘defiled’ (temporarily disqualified from being able to appro...

"The last pope of the prophecy has arrived, and that pope, Francis, Petrus Romanus of the prophecy, may be the false prophet of the Book of Revelation, the spokesman who will introduce the Antichrist."  Me:  Is that the face of the friend of Antichrist? Petrus Romanus of the prophecy In a previous post I blogged about the book Petrus Romanus , by Tom Horn and Cris Putnam. It was a book about all things Catholic. For instance, they dedicated a chapter to the fact that Peter was never really the bishop of Rome. Another chapter challenged the doctrine of an infallible pope, and of the elitist doctrine that all must submit to the pope as the Vicar of Christ to be saved. They talked about Mary in much the same way that I have blogged about her, about transubstantiation, about the celibate priesthood, etc. I learned plenty about the Masonic roots of our nation’s design. I was introduced to Malachi Martin and the history of Liberation Theology. But the point of the book was to ...

Pope Benedict XVI with President and Laura Bush Sources: Chuck Nowlen, “The Devil and Father Kunz: An Easter Tale about Murder, the Catholic Church and the Strange paths of Good and Evil,” Las Vegas Weekly, April 12, 2001, viewable at http://www.chucknowlen.com/kunz.htm. Thomas Horn, Zenith 2016, ( Crane, Missouri: Defender, 2013). Malachi Martin, Windswept House: A Vatican Novel, ( New York: Doubleday, 1996). Malachi Martin, The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church, ( New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987). Pius XII -- 1939-1958 John XXIII -- 1958-1963 Paul VI -- 1963 --1978 John Paul I -- 1978 John Paul II -- 1978-2005 Benedict XVI -- 2005-(2012) 2013 Francis -- March 13, 20013 Reality that sounds like fiction It was the team of Thomas Horn and Cris Putnam (more about them in past and future posts) that introduced me to Malachi Martin. He was a conservative Jesuit who, with the pope’s permission, left his order to write about Cathol...