Great Teacher Book - What's Wrong With This Picture?

by ezekiel3 29 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • peacefulpete
    peacefulpete

    Here is the flood story separated by the two primary authors. :

    The Flood - Genesis 6:5 - 8:22
    From pages 54-59 of "Who Wrote the Bible" by Richard Elliot Friedman

    The J text is normal. The Priestly text is in bold.

    Genesis 6:
    5 And Yahweh saw that the evil of humans was great in the earth,
    and all the inclination of the thoughts of their heart was only evil all
    the day.
    6 And Yahweh regretted that he had made humans in the earth,
    and he was grieved to his heart.
    7 And Yahweh said, "I shall wipe out the humans which I have
    created from the face of the earth, from human to beast to creeping
    thing to bird of the heavens, for I regret that I have made them."
    8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.
    9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a right-
    eous man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with
    God.
    10 And Noah sired three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
    11 And the Earth was corrupted before God, and the
    earth was filled with violence.
    12 And God saw the earth and here it was corrupted, for
    all flesh had corrupted it's way on the earth.
    13 And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come
    before me, for the earth is filled with violence because of
    them, and here I am going to destroy them with the earth.
    14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood, make rooms with
    the ark, and pitch it outside and inside with pitch.
    15 And this is how you shall make it: Three hundred
    cubits the length of the ark, fifty cubits its width, and
    thirty cubits its height.
    16 You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall
    finish it to a cubit from the top, and you shall make an en-
    trance to the ark in its side. You shall make lower, second
    and third stories for it.
    17 And here I am bringing the flood, water over the
    earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life
    from under the heavens. Everything which is on the land
    will die.
    18 And I shall establish my covenant with you. And you
    shall come to the ark, you and your sons and your wife and
    your sons' wives with you.
    19 And of all the living, of all flesh, you shall bring two
    to the ark to keep alive with you, they shall be male and
    female.
    20 Of the birds according to their kind, and of the beasts
    according to their kind, and of all the creeping things of
    the earth according to their kind, two of each shall will come
    to you to keep alive.
    21 And you, take for yourself of all food which will be
    eaten and gather it to you, and it will be for you and for
    them for food.
    22 And Noah did according to all that God commanded
    him - so he did.

    Genesis 7
    1 And Yahweh said to Noah, "Come, you and all your household,
    to the ark, for I have seen you as righteous before me in this genera-
    tion.
    2 Of all the clean beasts, take yourself seven pairs, man and his
    woman, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, man and his
    woman.
    3 Also of the birds of the heavens seven pairs, male and female, to
    keep alive seed on the face of the earth."
    5 And Noah did according to all that Yahweh had commanded
    him.
    6 And Noah was six hundred years old, and the flood was
    on the earth.
    7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him
    came to the ark from before the waters of the flood.
    8 Of the clean beasts and of the beasts which
    were not
    clean, and of the birds and of all those which creep upon
    the earth,
    9 Two of each came to Noah to the ark, male and female
    as God had commanded Noah.
    10 And seven days later the waters of the flood were on the earth.
    11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second
    month, in the seventeenth day of the month, on this day
    all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the
    windows of the heavens were opened.
    12 And there was rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights.
    13 In this very day, Noah and Shem, Ham, and Japheth,
    the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and his sons' three wives
    with them came to the ark.
    14 They and all the living things according to their
    kind, and all the beasts according to their kind, and all
    the creeping things that creep on the earth according to
    their kind, and all the birds according to their kind, and
    every winged bird.
    15 And they came to Noah to the ark, two of each, of all
    flesh in which is the breath of life.
    16 And those which came were male and female, some of
    all flesh came, as God had command him. And Yahweh closed it for him.
    17 And the flood was on the earth for forty days and forty nights,
    and the waters multiplied and raised the ark, and it was lifted from
    the earth.
    18 And the waters grew strong and multiplied greatly on the earth,
    and the ark went on the surface of the waters.
    19 And the waters grew very very strong on the earth, and they
    covered all the high mountains that are under all the heavens.
    20 Fifteen cubits above, the waters grew stronger, and they cov-
    ered the mountains.
    21 And all flesh, those that creep on the earth, the
    birds, the beasts, and the wild animals, and all the swarm-
    ing things that swarm on the earth, and all the humans
    expired.
    22 Everything that had the breathing spirit of life in its nostrils,
    everything that was on the dry ground, died.
    23 And he wiped out all the substance that was on the face of the
    earth, from human to beast, to creeping thing, and to bird of the
    heavens, and they were wiped out from the earth, and only Noah
    and those who were with him in the ark were left.
    24 And the waters grew strong on the earth a hundred
    and fifty days.

    Genesis 8:
    1 And God rememberd Noah and all the living, and all
    the beasts that were with him in the ark, and God passed a
    wind over the earth, and the waters were decreased.
    2 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the
    heavens were shut, and the rain was restrained from the heavens.
    3 And the waters receded from the earth continually, and the
    waters were abated at the end of a hundred fifty days.
    4 And the ark rested, in the seventh month, in the seven-
    teenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
    5 And the waters continued receding until the tenth
    month; in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the
    tops of the mountains appeared.
    6 And it was at the end of forty days, and Noah opened the win-
    dow of the ark which he had made.
    7 And he sent out a raven, and it went back and forth
    until the waters dried up from the earth.
    8 And he sent out a dove from him to see whether the waters had
    eased from the face of the earth.
    9 And the dove did not find a resting place for its foot, and it
    returned to him to the ark, for waters were on the face of the earth,
    and he put out his hand and took it and brought it to him in the
    ark.
    10 And he waited seven more days, and he again sent out a dove
    from the ark.
    11 And the dove came to him at evening time, and here was an
    olive leaf torn off in its mouth, and Noah knew that the waters had
    eased from the earth.
    12 And he waited seven more days, and he sent out a dove, and it
    did not return to him ever again.
    13 And it was in the six hundred and first year, in the
    first month, on the first of the month, the waters dried
    from the earth. And Noah turned back the covering of the ark
    and looked, and here the face of the earth had dried.
    14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day
    of the month, the earth dried up.
    15 And God spoke to Noah, saying,
    16 "Go out from the ark, you and your wife and your sons'
    wives with you.
    17 All the living things that are with you, of all flesh,
    of the birds, and of the beasts, and of all the creeping
    things that creep on the earth, that go out with you,
    shall swarm in the earth and be fruitful and multiply in
    the earth."
    18 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives
    went out.
    19 All the living things, all the creeping things and all
    the birds, all that creep on the earth, by their families,
    they went out of the ark.
    20 And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and he took some of each
    of the clean beasts and of each of the clean birds, and he offered
    sacrifices on the altar.
    21 And Yahweh smelled the pleasant smell, and Yahweh said to his
    heart, "I shall not again curse the ground on man's account, for the
    inclination of the human heart is evil from their youth, and I shall
    not again strike all the living as I have done.
    22 All the rest of the days of the earth, seed and harvest, and cold
    and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not
    cease."

  • Odrade
    Odrade

    I'm with Pete... Maribou Storks? lol. wonder what carrion they ate while on the ark for a year? Oh wait a minute, they probably ate straw by angelic direction.

    Oh yeah, and their whites are way too white for having been a year in a big box.

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  • RR
    RR

    I understand they just excavated the arc and found fuzzy dice hanging above the lookout window.

  • OICU8it2
    OICU8it2

    The two vultures think the bison has died. They were used to eating carrion before the flood and haven't eaten in a while.

  • Devils Advocate
    Devils Advocate

    I kinda wonder why they aren't holding one foot up and looking at their shoe soles saying, "Yechhh! Look at all this mud on my shoe!"

  • Valis
    Valis

    the turkeys had to travel a fair piece to the Ark without being eaten..

    Sincerely,

    District Overbeer

  • funkyderek
    funkyderek
    Things seem so out of proportion. That long stay in the ark must have cause some animals to shrink and others to grow abnormally large.

    I think that's just the Watchtower artists. They're aware of the idea of perspective and they heard that things that are supposed to be further away should be drawn smaller and nearer the top of the picture, but they haven't quite got the hang of it.

    Just imagine the difficulty that eight people would have looking after all the animals in the picture for a full year in a boat. The logistics are mind-boggling. Each of those hippopotami can eat up to 68kg of grass a night. That's a lot of food - and a lot of hippo shit. Then remember that even the most implausible hyper-evolution scenario (proposed without a hint of irony by creationists) requires hundreds of species.

  • Dolllie
    Dolllie

    "not one of their better pictures!"

  • RunningMan
    RunningMan

    Maybe those were bi-polar bears.

  • BeelzeDub
    BeelzeDub

    Noah's wife is giving him the finger.

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