RE: [asa] Two questions...

Thanks Gordon:

Let me be more precise. There is only one motivation for positing missing
generations in the Genesis genealogies from Noah to Abraham. And that is to
get the flood into a time frame where the entire world's population could
conceivably emanate from Noah's three sons.

This supposed "gap" in generations need not exist from Adam to Noah as there
is little to be gained preceding from one breeding pair to three breeding
pairs. What is needed is the insertion of more time - 20,000, 60,000,
100,000 years after Noah. When it is advocated that all mankind descended
from Adam, those adherents also require all mankind to be wiped out in the
flood. An Adam as father to us all mandates a mankind obliterating flood to
terminate any embarrasing left over Adamites. Otherwise, they have to die
out all over the world some other way. In other words, if you buy into Adam
as the ultimate progenitor of all Homo sapiens then Noah's sons have to be
the second ultimate progenitors.

So it isn't a genealogy problem, it's a time problem. And we have a
parallel civilization - the Sumerians. The pre-flood Sumerian king list
ends with Ziusudra who is the hero in the legend of Ziusudra which parallels
the Genesis flood narrative. Then the SKL states, "then the flood swept
thereover."

Also the SKL places Ziusudra at Shuruppak. The Akkadian legend of the
eleventh tablet of Gilgamesh also names Shuruppak as the home of it's flood
hero. It would be hard to advocate this was some other flood. And the
Sumerians date to no earlier than 4000 BC.

Dick Fischer, GPA president

Genesis Proclaimed Association

"Finding Harmony in Bible, Science and History"

www.genesisproclaimed.org <http://www.genesisproclaimed.org/>

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Subject: RE: [asa] Two questions...

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Dick Fischer wrote:

> Hi James:

>

>

>

> There are arguments I could give, the flood is one. Why does anyone
suggest

> there are patriarchs missing out of the Genesis genealogies? There is
only

> one reason for that - to drive the flood back into a timeframe where it

> might be possible that the ark passengers could commence the entire human

> race. And the only reason for that is to accommodate our mistaken belief

> that Adam was the biological head of all Homo sapiens.

>

>

Saying that there is only one reason for believing in gaps in Genesis

genealogies goes too far. Comparison of Scripture with Scripture reveals

that there are gaps in other genealogies in the Bible, which suggests to

some that that might also be true of those in Genesis. The most thorough

study of this I know of is that of William Henry Green in 1890. He shows

that this phenomenon occurs even with genealogies (Levi to Moses) that

give ages.

Gordon Brown (ASA member)

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