Post by Rodney Farber on Sept 5, 2018 12:22:50 GMT
Exodus 26: 1-6
26 “You are to make the tabernacle+ with ten tent cloths of fine twisted linen, blue thread, purple wool, and scarlet material. You are to make them with embroidered cherub+ designs.+ 2 Each tent cloth will be 28 cubits long and 4 cubits wide. All the tent cloths are to be the same size.+ 3 Five tent cloths are to be joined one to another to form a series, and the other five tent cloths will be joined in a series. 4 You will make loops of blue thread on the edge of the one tent cloth at the end of the series, and you are to do the same on the outermost edge of the other set where it will join. 5 You will make 50 loops on the one tent cloth and 50 loops on the edge of the other tent cloth so that they will be opposite each other where they join. 6 You are to make 50 gold clasps and join the tent cloths together with the clasps, and the tabernacle will form one unit.
Any concept understandable to people today would be understandable to people 3,000 years ago, if you have the patience. If there was a Jehovah 3,000 years ago and wanted people to understand the germ theory of disease, he could have told them how to make a f***ing microscope instead of giving instructions on exactly what the curtains in his temple should look like.
Is there anything in the Bible that was not already known by mid-east scholars? Is there talk of Kangaroos? Lemurs? glaciers?
