Just for the record, the current noise in the MSM about UFOs is another government lie. Notice what I’m saying here: I won’t suggest that there are no real UFOs, and I won’t say there are no aliens from other planets. I’m saying the current noise about it is bogus. I’ve spent too much time experiencing government cover-ups first hand to be fooled by this. As someone else notes, all the evidence comes out of US government agencies. That the MSM is parroting these stories is proof that it’s a lie. Look for the government to use this lie to cover up something awful.
Another reason to hate Google: forcing SJW language into your writing. A new Google Docs feature will nag and harass you about “inclusive” language. I foresee a time coming when I will use one Google account, and only because I’m using an Android phone. I’ll stop using every other service they offer. As governments drift farther and farther into the grip of Big Tech, it will be utterly impossible to go about your daily life without having some kind of account like that, but there’s no reason I have to use it for anything else.
This is probably a good time to remind you that, while I’ll still respond via Gmail, I’d rather you use any of my other email addresses: br073n@outlook.com, ehurst@radixfidem.blog, or jhurst18@cox.net.
Persecution: The federal government policy is increasingly anti-Christian — Christian schools can be forced to embrace LGBTQ policies. If the secular State can be forced at some time in history to honor Christian belief, it can also later use that force against such belief. The real crime here is the long-standing believers’ compromising with an inherently unbiblical system. This is just another of the many reasons we reject seeking State permission for anything.
In response to a question that may interest you folks: I don’t attempt to put a date on anything in the Bible prior to Abraham. I think it’s very fortunate that we have clues indicating he probably lived back around 2100 BC. Even that is pretty iffy, but it’s a workable assumption. The Tower of Babel? I can’t guess. It almost has to be before 5000 BC, and maybe closer to 10,000 BC. The Flood? Certainly at least as far back as 12,000 BC, and likely much farther.
The Hebrew language doesn’t work under the same assumptions as people who read English translations of the Bible. Was Noah’s Flood global? I believe it was, but it doesn’t matter for one reason: If there were other people on earth who survived that cataclysm for any reason at all, they play no role in the Bible narrative. I’d be willing to say they didn’t survive time itself, because the human race as we know it today all came from Noah. There’s more than one way to fulfill that assertion. All we get is a very bare narrative from a single point of view.
That point of view is all that matters to us. We shouldn’t care if someone decides they have found Atlantis or any other ancient civilization outside those mentioned in the Bible. The narrative doesn’t exclude the possibility at all, but it ignores them as having no significance in divine redemption.
I, too, like the worldwide flood idea, since God’s promise was to not destroy the earth with a flood again. Of course, that doesn’t mean no floods at all (duh), but it feels like there wouldn’t need to be a promise like that unless there was a worldwide flood. I’m open to being wrong, though.
Agreed. Such a promise would mean nothing if it wasn’t global. It doesn’t rule out more cataclysms, either on smaller scales or of a different nature. It doesn’t rule out major catastrophes having taken place that simply aren’t mentioned because they aren’t part of the general narrative.