(Regarding the claim of there being a 10,000 year-old tree in England) -
IT IS POSSIBLE (though not likely) that an extraordinarily strongly rooted and structured TREE could have survived the forces of the Great Flood - that the TREE in question could be as old as claimed. The Bible only says that every living human and animal of the land - or birds that flew in the heaven - were wiped out, except for those saved in Noah's ark. - "So all flesh that was moving upon the earth expired, among the flying creatures and among the domestic animals and among the wild beasts and among all the swarms that were swarming upon the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything in which the breath of the force of life was active in its nostrils, namely, all that were on the dry ground, died. 23 Thus he wiped out every existing thing that was on the surface of the ground, from man to beast, to moving animal and to flying creature of the heavens, and they were wiped off the earth; and only Noah and those who were with him in the ark kept on surviving. 24 And the waters continued overwhelming the earth a hundred and fifty days." (Genesis 7:21-24)
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The scripturally grossly DISOBEDIENT FALSE "Christians" sided with the Hitler-Nazi regime or engaged in other wars were PRACTICING SATANISTS (serving his will, practicing his tenets) - as were/ are any atheists or other FALSE religionists involved in those or other God-violating demonic atrocities, works of terrorism, and heinous injustices against their fellow man. Jehovah names all EVIL-producing, BLASPHEMOUS, demonic LIE-teaching, and BLOOD GUILTY FALSE RELIGIONS as being part of Satan's spiritual whore conglomeration of "Babylon the Great." (Revelation chapters 17 and 18) God Himself MUST AVENGE those and other crimes against God and humanity - especially those worked against His own people, which did happen (and is still going on) - in fact, He PROMISES to do so, soon. That is why He is now having the whole world warned that they should LEAVE all of the world's FALSE, anti-whole-scriptural, God-defiant religions AT ONCE! God's punishment - His intervention, to get rid of all of Satan's global empire of all false religions is SOON!(Revelation 18:4,5,8,20-24) HOWEVER, simply treading water in atheism will NOT save anyone. Atheists have been GUILTY of MUCH of the SAME CRIMES AGAINST GOD and HUMANITY as those of the world's FALSE religions!!! And so those of the loose spiritual philosophy of atheism which DENIES God and REFUSES to obey His given scriptural instructions, practices and teaches tenets of SATANISM; and are usually also guilty of IDOLATRY of other things - IDOLATRY of MEN and their anti-God/ anti-scriptural ideologies; IDOLATRY of "science", IDOLATRY OF THEIR OWN (known to be against God's laws) SINFUL DESIRES and PRACTICES [this is probably the #1 under-lying cause of atheism]; etc. (Romans 1:18-32)God will take His rightful vengeance upon atheism/ stubbornly insolent and disobedient to God atheists too.......Leaving FALSE religion is NOT enough. Everyone NEEDS to honest-heartedly seek out the truth of the Creator God - as testified to in His creation; and as vitally detailed in His globally-given Holy Scriptures. Everyone NEEDS to be found by Jehovah the Creator to be worshiping Him "WITH SPIRIT and TRUTH." (John 4:24) Armageddon Day - the end of all vestiges of God-blaspheming and world-ruining EVIL on this earth - is SOON; so people NEED to be ready.
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That date is atrociously WRONG, your source for that is WRONG. Moses began writing down Genesis for God (including in Divinely-inspired retrospect), in the year 1513 B.C.E. The rest of the canon of the Hebrew Scriptures was finished by shortly after 443 B.C.E. The 332 or so prophesies in the Hebrew Scriptures referring to Jesus Christ alone, then, were finished being written down 441 years before he was even born then. Each king of Israel was to make his own copy of the law God gave to Moses. (Deuteronomy 17:18) A copy of the law of Moses was found in the temple in King Josiah's time - 642 B.C.E. From King Ezra's time forward, from around 460 B.C.E. on, manuscript copying proliferated. Overall, copyists took great care in their work. Caves in the area of the Dead Sea have produced not just the Dead Sea Scrolls [of the Bible Book of Isaiah]; but also copied manuscripts/ fragments of the Hebrew Scriptures - from the last few centuries B.C.E. When these were used for comparison with other manuscripts and fragments of the Hebrew Scriptures - a pool of some 6000 of them available, from the tenth century C.E. on, VERY LITTLE DIFFERENCES WERE FOUND. Just like Jehovah promised, he preserved His words - His purposed and intentional teachings to mankind.......The writing down of the Christian-Greek Scriptures was completed in 98 C.E. The oldest manuscript of them we possess today is a papyrus fragment of the Gospel of John, from about the year 125 C.E., about 27 years after the original was written. (It is known as P52, and is found in the John Rylands Library of Manchester, England.) Nevertheless, there exists a pool of about 13,000 manuscripts and fragments of the Christian-Greek Scriptures in the world that have been used for comparative accuracy to produce modern literal translations that we have now. In these Christian-Greek Scriptures, we can read of the accounts of Jesus life and activities, the personality qualities he displayed, and details of the events that transpired during his life on earth. Comparing what is written of Jesus in the Christian Greek Scriptures, to what was prophesied about God's Son, the Messiah, in the Hebrew Scriptures - hundreds of years before these things revealed themselves and transpired - an honest searcher of scriptural-spiritual truth must say, WOW, that is a miracle on top of a miracle - Divine prophecies have been accurately made, and clearly fulfilled. It is a witness to the truth of Jehovah God, Jesus Christ; and the reliability of God's words of the Holy Scriptures.
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(Re: Star Wars...)
Someone really wrote it....and the first two movies plus part of the third bore some chunks of allegory to concepts in the Bible....I don't like violence though - couldn't watch all of the third, by conscience. (It was too violent). I haven't watched them past that third movie....It is interesting though, because, in real life now, like in parts of that third movie, people are full of chattering and concern over what is going on with what is on the surface of things - POLITICS. But what should have been of much greater concern was the spiritual war that was going on. THE SPIRITUAL WAR WE ARE ALL IN NOW should be of HIGH concern TO EVERYONE; but - just like in the movie, the bulk of the chatter and distraction goes to "other"- just like the Bible has repeatedly warned us to beware of.
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____Not at all; but first off, 6000 years is the approximate AGE OF MAN - NOT the age of the earth! The six creative “days” were 6 epochs of time. The six creative “days” are NOT literal! Further, the Bible begins with saying that, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” THAT is where the biblical account of the creation of the earth begins to be recorded in Genesis. The Bible does NOT say how long ago God created the heavens and the earth; and neither does it say how long each creative “day” or epoch was. OF COURSE each "day" was longer than a literal 24 hours!
The 6000 years as being the age of man, however, is different. For that, a biblical timeline has been formed - from lineages, number of years of life for various persons, years of kingships, and events with known dates.
God had vital purposes in having His words and instructions recorded; and He has overseen that they have been preserved too, just as He promised. For example, the Dead Sea Scrolls, containing the Book of Isaiah, were kept in a cave for 1000 years. When they were discovered, and the surviving portions of those scrolls were compared with those same portions of the modern literal texts of Isaiah which were available, the differences were very little. Those who copied Bible texts did so with great care. There exists A pool of over 10,000 different manuscripts, and fragments of manuscripts which translationists have used for comparative accuracy. The best, most scholarly Bibles include any significant word differences or phrase differences in footnotes, etc. The differences between various literal translations of the Bible are relatively few, and most are discrepancies having to do with spelling or grammar. Also, the few scribal errors that do exist - whether mere errors, or Intentionally spurious inclusions or omissions - show up as such in the context of the whole Bible, and/or in comparison with other manuscripts. For these reasons and more, we can be confident that God has indeed preserved his Holy words, His Holy Scriptures - everything that is essential, to give us his Divine instruction, as purposed.
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Spiritual TRUTH IS AVAILABLE, in the globally given Holy Scriptures. (John 17:17) In fact, people are meant to and owe to take it up - it is an obligation of man. (Acts 17:26-28; Ecclesiastes 12:13). God's Son Jesus said it was entirely possible - and vital - to honest-heartedly search for, so as to know God's scriptural truth. (John 8:32; 4:24; Matthew 4:4) Belief in and following the whole of the Scriptures themselves (which interpret each other) forms the one true global religion; under the One True Creator God Jehovah, who had faithful men pen down HIs instructions for mankind, under Divine inspiration. In obedience and loyalty to God and His words then, True Christians do not participate in war; are not nationalistic; are not racist; repudiate injustice; repudiate dis-compassion; etc., and follow God's scriptural standards, to the best of their [imperfect] human abilities. We preach them to the world. Soon, there will be a total overhaul of this now largely Satan-run world system. God will soon intervene to bring an end to the world's actually anti-God, scripturally-DIS-obedient FALSE religions, aka, "Babylon the Great", who teach spiritistic/demonistic lies and doctrines of men in place of God's own teachings; and who spiritually adulterize themselves to "the kings of the earth", doing the bidding of those kings instead of obeying God and Christ. (Revelation chapters 17 and 18) After the final, sudden fall of "Babylon the Great"; Jehovah will then unleash Armageddon, which will remove every last vestige of evil, along with stubbornly and heinously evil and rebellious persons from this earth. (Revelation chapter 19; Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39) At the same time, He will dissolve all of the kingdoms of man that now exist. (Daniel 2:44) THE, He will extend His perfect, heaven-based Kingdom, led by His Son, down over all the earth, to encompass it, as it's only Rulership. Then, there WILL be TRUE peace on earth; and the God-respecting family of man here then can thrive......In other words, things ARE going to get better; but the time for people to ACT is NOW. Actually study Jehovah's scriptural words. (John 17:3, 17) LEAVE the world's FALSE religions. (Revelation 18:4,5,8,20-24) Worship Jehovah the Creator on His own scriptural terms, "with spirit and truth." (John 4:24) Live it. Teach it. (Matthew 24:14; 28:19,20) What you see developing is the build-up to a great global "storm"; and its going to be fierce storm; but then everything will be better. The time to learn spiritual truth; develop a strong and viable personal relationship with Jehovah the Creator (and give honor to His King-Son Jesus Christ, who offered his human life to ransom obedient mankind from death); obey God/ keep on obeying Him; and strengthen one's faith and teach others the Way to life is NOW. We don't know the day or hour the great tribulation, culminating in Armageddon, will be, but with all of the prophesies that have been fulfilled and are being fulfilled (such as the one we see here - Romans 1:18-32), it is the warned-of "season."
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It's YOU who is blaspheming God, Satanically claiming to the world that the globally given Holy Scriptures in general - the LIFELINE of Divine instruction/survival instruction for mankind - is "FALSE" and "BLASPHEMOUS". "J" or NO "J" (or "Y" or something else instead) as regards the long-used, globally commonly used names "Jesus" or "Jehovah" - to represent God's Son, or the Creator God Almighty - is a MOOT , unimportant argument; as it was God Himself who decided that there would be a variation in languages of this world. The holy, personal NAME of God Almighty the Creator (who is NOT the same person as His [other named] Son, Jesus Christ) - most commonly known (but NOT exclusively known) as Jehovah/ Yahweh, is based on the four Hebrew letters representing God's own name in the Scriptures - the Tetragrammaton, which translates and/or transliterates as YHWH/ JHVH. There are now MANY DIFFERENT TRANSLITERATIONS and NATURALIZATIONS of GOD'S HOLY NAME, BASED ON THE TETRAGRAMMATON, IN USE IN THE LANGUAGES OF PERSONS ALL OVER THIS WORLD. It has been the very purposed will of God, that ALL PERSONS ON EARTH HAVE A UNIQUE and SCRIPTURALLY VALID (based on the Tetragrammaton) NAME BY WHICH TO IDENTIFY HIM ALONE, CALL UPON HIM ALONE, and WORSHIP HIM ALONE AS GOD ALONE, THE ONLY TRUE GOD, and THE MOST HIGH. (PSALM 83:18) Some of these MANY naturalizations include: YEKOVAH, IEOVA, EXHOBA, IHUA, ZOOVA (and MORE).......*IN CONTRAST, there has been a recent development of FALSE religions which basically MAKE AN ENTIRE, scripturally INVALID RELIGION OF USING THE LETTER "Y" in names for God, and His Son. * ASIDE FROM THAT - they RETAIN MANY of the SAME demonism-based and doctrine of man- based FALSE religious teachings (such as belief in an "unknowable" pagan triune or duo-headed mystery idol godhead) and evil practices from them as the REST of the world's God-condemned FALSE religions of "Babylon the Great." It is necessary to LEAVE the FALSE religions of "Babylon the Great" (Revelation 18:4,5); and worship the God behind His most holy name "with spirit and truth" (John 4:24); so that when one calls upon the holy name of God - as He does require - one does not profane the holy name of God.
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