Eddy_P, on 03 January 2013 - 02:50 AM, said:
You must have missed the given link.
One step is to identify what TYPE of ‘book’. (From the texts themselves, and not from repeated religious tradition and rhetoric - as you seem to have quoted.)
The next step is to find a ‘book’ of that type and cross-check its CONTENTS with the over 200 extracted descriptions from the Bible.
Once that is done, and the evidence shows it is more than just wishful thinking or a coincidence, then a conclusion can be made, which then IDENTIFIES the modern book seen back in the past.
Here’s a direct link:
http://www.tt2012.co...eals/index.html
I suggest you visit the “Book Identified” page then the “Contents Compared” page.
Between the two you will see that the ‘book’ described by three writers from the Bible (Ezekiel, Daniel, and John) was a mid 1990s cd-rom entitled Ancient Civilizations of the Mediterranean.
Over a 90 percent match of details is not coincidence.
Thus there is no coincidence here, just logic, common sense, critical thinking and evidence.
(btw. ‘Matching pictures from a modern cd-rom to ancient biblical descriptions’ is just one set of examples from a series of eight. More: http://www.worldbrea...m.au/index.html
Lets look at some of that supposed evidence shall we.
Eddy said:
Greek word book #975 means 'a roll'. The English meaning of 'roll' is 'to move by turning on an axis'.
The origin of the English word "roll" (a noun, in senses referring to round objects) was around 1175-1225 CE, and came via < Old French rolle < Middle Latin rotulus < Latin rotula small wheel, a diminutive of rota meaning 'wheel'.
Its original reference, to a rolled up parchment or scroll, is what they would have meant and not a cd, especially in light of the fact that the cd would only spin inside the cd drive and you can't see it spin while it is in there.
Eddy said:
Hebrew word David #1732 was originally without vowels, written as dvd In English those letters are DVD.
Thus the "root of David" = the 'root of DVD'.
A cd is not a dvd and a time traveler would have known that. Also you made the mistake of using modern Hebrew as opposed to the earlier Hebrew that was used at the time the books of the bible were written. In modern Hebrew it is VAV with a V sound in the older Hebrew it is WOW with a W, O or U sound. So it would not be DVD but one of the following DWD, DOD or DUD. DUD I think is more accurate for this part of your evidence.
http://www.ancient-h...g/28_chart.html
Eddy said:
In the root directory of the Ancients cd-rom, the main file {seal} that
starts the program has a numerical value (rounded up) of 144,000.
Depending on the program there was either a batch file that was run or you would change the directory to where the program was and type the name of the program to run it. The file structure would not have been shown when running the program.
Rev 7:4 And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousand sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:
The bible talks of 12,000 from each of 12 houses while the directory structure has nothing like that.
Eddy said:
There are seven 'animal' icons that are the doorways {seals} which
take us to the various civilizations:
The seals listed in order in the Bible are White Horse, War, Famine, Death, Martyrs, Terror and Trumpets. They are not animal images with the possible exception of the 4 horsemen and they certainly have nothing to do with various civilizations.
The "Ancient Civilizations of the Mediterranean" cd was released in 1995. It makes no sense to get the cd and an antiquated 386 computer when pentiums were available at that time.
What we see is not the use of common sense, logic or critical thinking but IMO coincidence, sloppy research and wilful misinterpretation of what has been found. The supposed evidence can be compared to clay and the theory to a mold. The clay evidence is pushed into the theory mold then removed, held up and a declaration of "see it does support the theory" is made.
Just in the evaluation of some of the material from your own site it can be seen that your "90% match of details" statement is a grossly inflated number.