Ugh wrote:
porridge wrote:
..The Bible & other mythology does have a lot of truth in but from stories being rewritten by Rome..
Huh? You say the bible is a myth but then you say there's truth in it. Make up your mind..

For the record, there are at least two separate passages in the bible telling of how time ran backwards, stopped, then began running forward again, how kool is that?
God said-
"Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down" (Isaiah 38:8 )
"The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. There has never been a day like it before or since" (Joshua 10:12-14)
If we look at it scientifically, we can pose an interesting question like did the sun actually move backwards, or was the rotation of the earth reversed to create the illusion?
I wonder if ancient astronomers (maybe Chinese) recorded it and said- "Some weird shit going on up there"
PS- Einstein and other scientists have proved that time is stretchy and elastic, so I've got a theory that perhaps time ran faster or slower at different periods of earth's history; therefore when dating fossils and stuff maybe we shouldn't assume that time has always run at the same speed.
This verse could tie in with it-
"With God a thousand years are as one day" (2 Peter 3:8 )
What got him started was
the biblical story of Joshua commanding the Sun and Moon to stop moving for an entire day and invoking a devastating hail of stones from the sky during his battle with the Amorites. Velikovsky was also seeking a physical reason for the plagues inflicted on the Egyptians in Exodus.
Venus provided all the answers. That long tail it trailed after leaving Jupiter had also created all kinds of havoc for Pharaoh as Earth passed through it not once but twice. And although we escaped an outright collision, the proximity of Venus caused Earth’s orbit and axial tilt to change, a magnetic reversal, and worldwide floods, hurricanes, and volcanic eruptions — all within recorded history. None of this catastrophism was chronicled by our ancestors, Velikovsky asserts, because they suffered from a “collective amnesia” that repressed all memory of these occurrences. As further proof, he details how Venus is conspicuously absent from various historical tabulations of planets prior to about 2000 BC.
www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/history-and-sky-lore/velikovskys-venus/
Myth does not necessarily equal pure fiction Urgh..like most stories people got the idea from somewhere based on their experiences or what they were told.
Some stories get rehashed & "Chinese whispererd" end up totally different like sea monsters.. If you come a cross a blue whale for example.
Most myth stems from stories of what was happening on the big screen (sky) & the cosmos.
Emanuel Velikovsky was big into relating myths with actual events & comparing different cultures stories that correlate with each other..
The mainstream establishment attacked him, but a lot of what he said has been proven true in later years, like Venus being a new planet..he theorised it was a comet.
So if the bible was put together from early myths or historic events, but changed to include some sand people roaming the desert..as proven is the case.. (I know you will disagree) but please spare me the bible quotes & Elvis seal of approval..