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Skeptics argue that by creating man as a creature that can sin, and then not stopping them from doing so, God is therefore responsible for (read as “causing”) all sin, and so cannot be all good. Many Christians respond that acts of omission are not necessarily wrong, that it is acts of commission that are wrong. But the skeptic sees the active creation of a free-willed person, a person God knows will sin, as an act of commission, and this true as far as it goes. To this, Christians will typically respond with descriptions of God’s majesty, quoting scripture that tells us (truthfully!) that God’s ways are higher than ours, and that it’s only in human arrogance that we even attempt …

Noah > Ham > Cush > Nimrod >> Nineveh

In my entire life, I never thought of Nineveh as any place other than that place in the story of Jonah and the Whale. However, Nineveh is more than that. It is a city built by Nimrod in Assyria. In my opinion, it was built after the Tower of the Babel, which is when I believe Nimrod left Shinar.

If the book of Jonah is any indication, Nineveh was an evil city looking for God. How can evil people be looking for God, you might ask? Because evil can be what you do or it can be who you are. In this case, Nineveh was evil by what …

Noah > Ham > Cush > Nimrod >> Babylon

Babylon is the part of the Table of Nations that I have been putting off looking at. It is extremely prominent in both secular and Biblical history. To read that a Biblical character ruled it at one point seems almost fantastic. To read that the Tower of Babel was there makes one pause. Yet, as I have written so often on this blog, when you line up Biblical events with historical, the biblical seems to line up with the silence one finds within the historical. For example, the flood of 40 days and nights took place right when Sumer’s flood of 7 days took place. This …

Noah > Ham > Cush > Nimrod >> Kalneh

Kalneh is one of the cities that scripture records Nimrod ruling. It’s location is uncertain, but is certainly within Shinar, probably not too far from Babylon. There have been several attempts to locate it, but none with certainty. There are no Kings that I found, no modern cities that are clearly descended from them, no real events passed down through the ages. However, there is information through which one might put together some story.

Kalneh and its possible variants appear in the following four verses:

Genesis 10:10 - The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar. 
Amos 6:2 - Go to …

Memo to Earth: Do not boast.

Why do I say this? Because I have seen your obedience to God, and then watched you take the credit, as if God doesn’t exist.
Genesis 1:24
24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.”
And you did in fact take what life was already there, and produce the livestock and cattle we have from them. You produced them according to their kinds, yet you take credit for what you have done. But you err, for the passage goes on…
And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according …

As one may have inferred from Reflections on History and the Jewish Calendar (Part 1), even before I discovered the King’s Calendar, I had reason to believe that the times recorded in the Bible were always meant to lead us back to the date of 2807 BC for the flood. Then I found the King’s Calendar, and presto! Now I have two dating techniques that lead back to 2807 BC. What’s going on? Well, if there’s something to this (i.e., if this isn’t a wild goose chase, and is more than sheer coincidence), then it would seem that the following sequence took place…

Bible is written with solar dates leading back to 2807 BC for the flood
Bible dates are converted into …

So, now I have two timelines that work out exactly. This is weird, and creates an unfortunate argument against my research, but I will live with it. Someone who wants to tear my theories down will say, “How do we know which one is right?” And to that, I fall back to my old standby: we do not have to know. My only goal is to show that with a reasonable set of arguments, I can demonstrate that my dating is reasonable. The fact that I have now done it with two sets of assumptions, neither of which was guaranteed to work, bolsters my bottom line, that it is reasonable to accept my date for the flood. But, for the record, here …

In Reflections on History and the Jewish Calendar (Part 4), I introduced the King’s Calendar, a project to reconcile the seemingly contradictory dates within the scriptures. Until now, all of the sources I have found chalked up the discrepancies in scripture to valid theories, but this is the first project I have seen that actually put a mathematical model of those theories together, and assembled a scriptural timeline from it.

So, knowing this could negate some of my conclusions about the date of the flood, but wanting to remain intellectually honest in my pursuits, I purchased the King’s Calendar’s eBook, and read through articles written by the same author, both on his and other websites. Though I believe the author’s …

In my investigations, I came across what is called The King’s Calendar. It is a systematic, mathematical approach for squaring away all of the dates and durations recorded in the Bible. How does it compare with the dates that I have rather simplistically computed? Without delving too deep into the King’s Calendar (yet), here is how my dates compare with the dates computed by the Kings Calendar (which does not go back beyond Abraham’s birth).

Here are the key dates I computed, in reverse order:

587 BC - Destruction of Solomon’s Temple, after standing 410 years
997 BC - Construction of Solomon’s Temple, 480 years after exodus
1437 BC - End of Israel’s 40 years in the wilderness
1477 BC - Exodus from Egypt
2455 BC - Abraham’s birth …

The fixed Jewish Calendar was established by Hillel II in the Jewish Year 4119, or 359 A.D., but by then the method for determining the year was already determined. The one credited with first calculating the Jewish year is Rabbi Yossi, in the 2nd century AD. Tradition considers it to have been computed by him about 160 AD. This initial chronology is called the Seder Olam Rabbah (”The Long Order of the World”), and the year was determine by adding up the ages of the patriarchs in the book of Genesis, and continuing on through the Bible, until what was then the present time. Though Rabbi Yossi’s authorship of the Seder Olam Rabbah is uncertain …