In a previous post there was some discussion on whether Neanderthals had a soul. If Neanderthals had religion, was it christian-based or not. Logic would tell you that it would have been paganistic.
That leads to another question. Just what was the purpose of having multiple species on this earth? Homo Erectus, Homo Sapien, Neanderthal. They all lived on the earth at the same time, and many other species preceded them. Were they all just part of a greater human experiment where God sat back to see which would become the ultimate survivor? Well, the Homo Sapien's won that battle around 25,000 years ago. Why then did it take another 19,000 years for God to reveal his eternal plan to Adam and Eve? Just having trouble reconciling all this with what is taught in the scriptures. Especially since many (including me) have concluded that there never was a time on earth when the sole parents of humanity lived. DNA research has borne this out.
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There was no Christian-based religion until Christ, obviously. In order to avoid offending Israel, some Evangelicals speak of the "Judeo-Christian heritage" of America. That's an abomination. Christianity supercedes Judaism. There are not two paths to salvation, one through faith in Christ and the other through the Law.
God did not reveal his eternal plan to Adam and Eve, because a plan implies a project that is undertaken in a specific arena for a single purpose. Instead, God scattered Adam and Eve from their idyllic life of ease where everything they needed was provided for them. In the outside world they were forced to take the things they needed from the earth by their own labors.
In dealing with Cain, God scattered him away from his "planned" livelihood tilling the land and forced him and his progency to create the first cities, music, and blacksmithy. In both cases, God found men in a sterile, cloistered planned situation and spurred him on to creative effort in a larger arena.
At Babel, man had gathered together into a single tribe with a single tongue, and built a single plannedcity that would grow upward as much as it grew outward, a festering pimple on the face of the earth. By confusing their languages, God again scattered mankind from a secluded existence into widespread efforts that would result in him populating and subduing the entire planet.
God brought the Babylonians against Jerusalem and scattered the Jews across the world in the diaspora, thus ensuring no single catastrophe would again threaten the entirety of the Planned People.
There are some that say that Christ was the God of the Old Testament so even though the OT referred to the Law, it was Christ's Law, therefore Christ's religion.
I think a more accurate way to put it is that Christ fulfilled the Law. Christianity (during the time of Christ) was not a separate religion that superseded Judaism. It was in fact a sect within Judaism. It wasn't until Paul that Christianity branched out beyond Jews.
I think the stories of Adam and Eve, The Tower of Babel, and the Flood, etc. are just myths created to answer questions like "where did we come from", "why are there so many languages spoken" (I actually can't come up with a valid reason for the flood).
We also know that it wasn't descendants of Cain that built the great Egyptian empire as stated in the Bible, because Egypt precedes the flood.
Are you going to answer my question in the previous post?
Easy does it Rick, I've got two blogs of my own, several other blogs I like to comment in, and its the middle of the work week too. Pace yourself.
I can't help it if I'm thirsty.
Hi hi, Bishop Rick.
I owe you a margarita.
Remind me to add you to my blog roll - or tell me NO and I won't :)
Be well.
Add away. Be sure to click on "follow this blog".
Here is an interesting article that made me think of the discussions you have been having in the comments of the last few posts:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/01/the_proper_reverence_due_those.php
That certainly puts it into perspective. Thanks for the article.
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