God created the Whiteman and the Blackman undoubtedly evolved from the Ape, evident of which lies in the fact that, even today, a lot of our nigger brothers bear the exact features, and Behave like the ancient Apes. Inusah ... read full comment
God created the Whiteman and the Blackman undoubtedly evolved from the Ape, evident of which lies in the fact that, even today, a lot of our nigger brothers bear the exact features, and Behave like the ancient Apes. Inusah Fuseini, the NDC MP of Tamale and the energy minister is a complete replica of an ape, an unambiguous evident that we are descendants of the orangutan family.
Mr. Figure-Out 10 years ago
Akora Andy, you are fighting a loosing battle as as this topical concept in discussion is concerned. The countably many ignorants who parade themselves as believers of Gods word, thus the scriptures, outnumber the countably f ... read full comment
Akora Andy, you are fighting a loosing battle as as this topical concept in discussion is concerned. The countably many ignorants who parade themselves as believers of Gods word, thus the scriptures, outnumber the countably few who share your views on this matter and therefore make it almost impossible to infuse some sense into their warped brains. The bible is full of contradictions and the concept of the Noah's Ark is one of the greatest hoax just as that of job. The bible and the evolutionary concept diametrically oppose each other. And if we are to believe that Noah took each pair of any living creature or specie with him on board of his 'one man thousand' Ark, presumably bigger than the BIGGEST cruise ship, Queen Mary II, then one would wonder how he was able to accommodate all the presently known 1.7 million animal species on the earth( fish alone account for 28 thousand of this number). Is it not insane to believe everything we read Ffrom the scriptures? And we have some idiots who call themselves jihadist, killing and mutilating their fellow human beings, in the name of that stupid sharia law, because they don't give in to the dictates of their fucking doctrines. What a useless world we live in! I personally believe there is a supreme being, I go to church, not because in doing so will help me to go to heaven, if it really exist, but to help build a strong social relationship with my neighbors and also help me to stay focus. I believe in loving, caring and sharing rather than to call myself a religious entity, entangle myself with some stupid set of rules that I cannot follow. Practicing kindness is the best way for each and every living creature to go. I would edge each reasonable being on this forum to read this piece :
Evolution and the Bible
by Henry Morris, Ph.D.
The evolutionary system has been entrenched for so long that many people who otherwise accept the Bible as infallible have deemed it expedient to compromise on this issue. Thus, evolution has been called, "God's method of creation"; and the Genesis record of the six days of creation has been reinterpreted in terms of the evolutionary ages of historical geology. These geological ages themselves have been accommodated in Genesis either by placing them in an assumed "gap" between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 or by changing the "days" of creation into the "ages" of evolution.
Theories of this kind raise more problems than they solve, however. It is more productive to take the Bible literally and then to interpret the actual facts of science within its revelatory framework. If the Bible cannot be understood, it is useless as revelation. If it contains scientific fallacies, it could not have been given by inspiration.
The specific purpose of this study is to show that all such theories which seek to accommodate the Bible to evolutionary geology are invalid and, therefore, should be abandoned.
Theistic Evolution
Evolution is believed by its leading advocates to be a basic principle of continual development, of increasing order and complexity, throughout the universe. The complex elements are said to have developed from simpler elements, living organisms to have evolved from non-living chemicals, complex forms of life from simpler organisms, and even man himself to have gradually evolved from some kind of ape-like ancestor. Religions, cultures, and other social institutions are likewise believed to be continually evolving into higher forms.
Thus, evolution is a complete world-view, an explanation of origins and meanings without the necessity of a personal God who created and upholds all things. Since this philosophy is so widely and persuasively taught in our schools, Christians are often tempted to accept the compromise position of "theistic evolution", according to which evolution is viewed as God's method of creation. However, this is basically an inconsistent and contradictory position. A few of its fallacies are as follows:
( 1) It contradicts the Bible record of creation. Ten times in the first chapter of Genesis, it is said that God created plants and animals to reproduce "after their kinds". The Biblical "kind" may be broader than our modern "species" concept, but at least it implies definite limits to variation. The New Testament writers accepted the full historicity of the Genesis account of creation. Even Christ Himself quoted from it as historically accurate and authoritative (Matthew 19:4-6).
(2) It is inconsistent with God's methods. The standard concept of evolution involves the development of innumerable misfits and extinctions, useless and even harmful organisms. If this is God's "method of creation", it is strange that He would use such cruel, haphazard, inefficient, wasteful processes. Furthermore, the idea of the "survival of the fittest", whereby the stronger animals eliminate the weaker in the "struggle for existence" is the essence of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, and this whole scheme is flatly contradicted by the Biblical doctrine of love, of unselfish sacrifice, and of Christian charity. The God of the Bible is a God of order and of grace, not a God of confusion and cruelty.
(3) The evolutionary philosophy is the intellectual basis of all anti-theistic systems. It served Hitler as the rationale for Nazism and Marx as the supposed, scientific basis for communism. It is the basis of the various modern methods of psychology and sociology that treat man merely as a higher animal and which have led to the misnamed "new morality" and ethical relativism. It has provided the pseudo-scientific rationale for racism and military aggression. Its whole effect on the world and mankind has been harmful and degrading. Jesus said: "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit" (Matthew 7:18). The evil fruit of the evolutionary philosophy is evidence enough of its evil roots.
Thus, evolution is Biblically unsound, theologically contradictory. and sociologically harmful.
Progressive Creation
Some Christians use this term "progressive creation" instead of "theistic evolution", the difference being the suggestion that God interjected occasional acts of creation at critical points throughout the geological ages. Thus, for example, man's soul was created, though his body evolved from an ape-like ancestor.
This concept is less acceptable than theistic evolution, however. It not only charges God with waste and cruelty (through its commitment to the geologic ages) but also with ignorance and incompetence. God's postulated intermittent creative efforts show either that He didn't know what He wanted when He started the process or else that He couldn't provide it with enough energy to sustain it until it reached its goal. A god who would have to create man by any such cut-and-try discontinuous, injurious method as this can hardly be the omniscient, omnipotent, loving God of the Bible.
The Day-Age Theory
According to the established system of historical geology, the history of the earth is divided into a number of geological ages. The earth is supposed to have evolved into its present form and inhabitants over a vast span of geologic ages, beginning about a billion years ago.
In contrast. the Biblical revelation tells us that God created the entire universe in six days only a few thousand years ago. Consequently, many Christian scholars have tried to find some way of reinterpreting Genesis to fit the framework of history prescribed by the geologists.
The most popular of these devices has been the "day-age" theory, by which the "days" of creation were interpreted figuratively as the "ages" of geology. However, there are many serious difficulties with this theory.
The Hebrew word for "day" is "yom" and the word can occasionally be used to mean an indefinite period of time, if the context warrants. In the overwhelming preponderance of its occurrences in the Old Testament, however, it means a literal day, that is, either an entire solar day or the daylight portion of a solar day. It was, in fact, defined by God Himself the very first time it was used, Genesis 1:5, where we are told that "God called the light, day." It thus means, in the context, the "day" in the succession of "day and night" or "light and darkness".
Furthermore, the word is never used to mean a definite period of time, in a succession of similar periods (that is, "the first day", "the second day etc.) or with definite terminal points (that is, noted by "evening and morning", etc.) unless the period is a literal solar day. And there are hundreds of instances of this sort in the Bible.
Still further, the plural form of the word (Hebrew "yamim") is used over 700 times in the Old Testament and always, without exception, refers to literal "days". A statement in the Ten Commandments written on a tablet of stone directly by God Himself is very significant in this connection, where He uses this word and says plainly: "In six days, the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is" (Exodus 20:11).
Not only is the day-age theory unacceptable Scripturally, but it also is grossly in conflict with the geological position with which it attempts to compromise. There are more than 20 serious contradictions between the Biblical order and events of the creative days and the standard geologic history of the earth and its development, even if it were permissible to interpret the "days" as "ages". For example, the Bible teaches that the earth existed before the stars, that it was initially covered by water, that fruit trees appeared before fishes, that plant life preceded the sun, that the first animals created were the whales, that birds were made before insects, that man was created before woman, and many other such things, all of which are contradicted by historical geologists and paleontologists.
But the most serious fallacy in the day-age theory is theological. It charges God with the direct responsibility for five billion years of history of purposeless variation, accidental changes, evolutionary blind alleys, numerous misfits and extinctions, a cruel struggle for existence, with preservation of the strong and extermination of the weak, of natural disasters of all kinds, rampant disease, disorder, and decay, and, above all, with death. The Bible teaches that, at the end of the creation period, God pronounced His whole creation to be "very good", in spite of all this. It also teaches plainly that this present type of world, "groaning and travailing in pain" (Romans 8:22) only resulted from man's sin and God's curse thereon. "By one man sin entered into the world and death by sin" (Romans 5:12). "God is not the author of confusion" (I Corinthians 14:33).
The Gap Theory
Two theories for harmonizing the First chapter of Genesis with the geologic ages have been advanced, one placing the geologic ages "during" the six days of creation (thus making the "days" into "ages"), and the other placing the geologic ages "before" the six days (thus making them days of "recreation" following a great cataclysm which had destroyed the primeval earth). The "day-age theory" has been shown to be an impossible compromise, both Biblically and scientifically.
The "gap theory" likewise involves numerous serious fallacies. The geologic ages cannot be disposed of merely by ignoring the extensive fossil record on which they are based. These supposed ages are inextricably involved in the entire structure of the evolutionary history of the earth and its inhabitants, up to and including man. The fossil record is the best evidence for evolution (in fact, the only such evidence which indicates evolution on more than a trivial scale). Furthermore, the geologic ages are recognized and identified specifically by the fossil contents of the sedimentary rocks in the earth's crust. The very names of the ages show this. Thus, the "Paleozoic Era" is the era of "ancient life", the "Mesozoic Era" of "intermediate life", and the "Cenozoic Era" of "recent life". At a matter of fact, the one primary means for dating these rocks in the first place has always been the supposed "stage-of-evolution" of the contained fossils.
Thus, acceptance or the geologic ages implicitly involves acceptance of the whole evolutionary package. Most of the fossil forms preserved in the sedimentary rocks have obvious relatives in the present world, so that the "re-creation" concept involves the Creator in "re-creating" in six days of the same animals and plants which had been previously developed slowly over long ages, only to perish violently in a great pre-Adamic cataclysm.
The gap theory, therefore, really does not face the evolution issue at all, but merely pigeon-holes it in an imaginary gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. It leaves unanswered the serious problem as to why God would use the method of slow evolution over long ages in the primeval world, then destroy it, and then use the method of special creation it to re-create the same forms He had just destroyed.
Furthermore, there is no geologic evidence of such a worldwide cataclysm in recent geologic history. In fact, the very concept of a worldwide cataclysm precludes the geologic ages. which are based specifically on the assumption that there have been no such worldwide cataclysms. As a device for harmonizing Genesis with geology, the gap theory is self-defeating.
The greatest problem with the theory is that it makes God the direct author of evil. It implies that He used the methods of struggle, violence, decay, and death on a worldwide scale for at least three billion years in order to accomplish His unknown purposes in the primeval world. This is the testimony of the fossils and the geologic ages which the theory tries to place before Genesis 1:2. Then, according to the theory, Satan sinned against God in heaven (Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:11-17), and God cast him out of heaven to the earth, destroying the earth in the process in the supposed pre-Adamic cataclysm. Satan's sin in heaven, however, cannot in any way account for the age-long spectacle of suffering and death in the world during the geologic ages which preceded his sin! Thus. God alone remains responsible for suffering, death, and confusion, and without any reason for it.
The Scripture says, on the other hand, at the end of the six days of creation, "And God saw everything that he had made (e.g., including not only the entire earth and all its contents, but all the heavens as well—note Genesis 1:16; 2:2, etc.) and, behold, it was very good" (Genesis 1:31). Death did not "enter the world" until man sinned (Romans 5:12; I Corinthians 15:21). Evidently even Satan's rebellion in heaven had not yet taken place, because everything was pronounced "very good" there, too.
The real answer to the meaning of the great terrestrial graveyard—the fossil contents of the great beds of hardened sediments all over the world—will be found neither in the slow operation of uniform natural processes over vast ages of time nor in an imaginary cataclysm that took place before the six days of God's perfect creation. Rather, it will be found in a careful study of the very real world-wide cataclysm described in Genesis 6 through 9 and confirmed in many other parts of the Bible and in the early records of nations and tribes all over the world, namely, the great Flood of the days of Noah. Evidences for and results of this worldwide flood are discussed in detail in Impact Series No. 6.
Conclusion
Only a few of the many difficulties with the various accommodationist theories have been discussed, but even these-have shown that it is impossible to devise a legitimate means of harmonizing the Bible with evolution. We must conclude, therefore, that if the Bible is really the Word of God (as its writers allege and as we believe) then evolution and its geological age-system must be completely false. Since the Bible cannot be reinterpreted to correlate with evolution, Christians must diligently proceed to correlate the facts of science so with the Bible.
* Henry M. Morris is Director of the Institute for Creation Research, as well as the Academic Vice-President of Christian Heritage College. He received his Ph.D. in hydraulics, with minors in geology and mathematics. He has spent thirty years in education and research, including thirteen years as Professor of Hydraulic Engineering and Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is also President of the Creation Research Society.
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J.J. LAWRENCE 10 years ago
Who cares about the shit you wrote in 1977 haaaa! "Kwasea!", fuck off!
Who cares about the shit you wrote in 1977 haaaa! "Kwasea!", fuck off!
nii 10 years ago
My Friend it is the other way around. Every human being on our planet earth irrespective of their "COLOUR" green, blue come from AFRICA. If you are a bible fanatic, then I an sorry you are LOST.
My Friend it is the other way around. Every human being on our planet earth irrespective of their "COLOUR" green, blue come from AFRICA. If you are a bible fanatic, then I an sorry you are LOST.
Nana Yaw 10 years ago
Modern humans originated from Africa. All the stories in the Jewish holy books are oral history from their experience from one generation to the next during the migration exodus out of Africa. The Black man is the genesis of ... read full comment
Modern humans originated from Africa. All the stories in the Jewish holy books are oral history from their experience from one generation to the next during the migration exodus out of Africa. The Black man is the genesis of the modern human specie. Most Caucasians are mixed breed of modern human and the Neanderthals, and most Arabs and people from the Mediterranean are mixed breed from modern humans from Africa and Caucasians!!!
GIDEON 10 years ago
Mr. author, we do not believe in blind faith as christians. All the testimonies you hear us give in our churches and day to day lives are real experiences. If you believe God doesn't exist and for which reason we should stop ... read full comment
Mr. author, we do not believe in blind faith as christians. All the testimonies you hear us give in our churches and day to day lives are real experiences. If you believe God doesn't exist and for which reason we should stop believing, then you got to convince us what it is that we experience everyday. You've also got to prove to us with scientific evidence(for that is what you believe) that God does not exist.
As to your claim of the Noah story being stolen from the kemetians, I want you to know that the ancient Egyptians were worshipers of Satan and satan knows the Noah story very well. If he revealed this story to his servants, only for it to be revealed later in its truth by the almighty God, it does not discredit the revelation given by God in any way. The word of God is true for those of us who believe because of the power we feel in it.
Concerned 10 years ago
The world is too much complex for man to understand everything. Funny the way fools rather think they know everything
The world is too much complex for man to understand everything. Funny the way fools rather think they know everything
KK 10 years ago
With faith, you can believe that a woman who has never had sex or in vitro fertilization can give birth to a child. With faith, you can believe in anything at all because you don't have to prove that the thing exists or happe ... read full comment
With faith, you can believe that a woman who has never had sex or in vitro fertilization can give birth to a child. With faith, you can believe in anything at all because you don't have to prove that the thing exists or happened.
With faith you can believe in God - absolutely without any evidence.
Faith is a different thing belonging to the realms of magic, myth, ghosts, and any such things.
It is different from science which desires proof of one kind or other. It is only science that is ready to suspend judgment or even change what it "believed" to be true for another truth. It is only science that does not claim any monopoly over truth. That is why science and religion will NEVER meet.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
My friend, I don't know about Satan's knowledge of history. In fact, I don't even know that Satan exists and so won't want a disputation on that [at least, not for now], as I'd like to keep to things that I know at the momen ... read full comment
My friend, I don't know about Satan's knowledge of history. In fact, I don't even know that Satan exists and so won't want a disputation on that [at least, not for now], as I'd like to keep to things that I know at the moment and not be drawn into some metaphysical debate.
I just want to correct something you attributed to me, that the flood story was "stolen from the Kemetians". I implied no such thing. Actually, ancient Egyptian mythology or history doesn't contain a flood story. In short, they had no such belief or myth. The Gilgamesh Epic is of Sumerian origin, far older than the Bible. My ref. to Egypt was in connection to the classificatory systems of the world attributed to Manetho.
As for Egyptians worshipping Satan, I know that you are making such statements out of your supreme ignorance. So I know that you are not aware of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhneton being the first recorded in history to have come out with the concept of monotheism. For that debate later on, you can be pondering on the query whether unicorns existed before.
I urge you and others in your category to do yourselves some good and spare some of us the heartbreak we feel at the superstition and ignorance of fellow Africans by utilising the reading and comprehension skills you have acquired through your education doing a google search of some key names and terms in the article.
Search for the Gilgamesh Epic, Manetho, Bernal Martin's Black Athena and read as much as you could. You can't read all and know all even if you spent the next 3 months doing that! But I hope the little that you guys read open your eyes to the fact that there is more to the biblical and qu'ranic myths than you can know in your entire lives.
Andy-K
william 10 years ago
The author is challenging us to 'think'. If you are scared to think and think straight to be free of mental domination by others, that is your problem!
The author is challenging us to 'think'. If you are scared to think and think straight to be free of mental domination by others, that is your problem!
Kwame Angel 10 years ago
That's why the don't have toilets. They shit in the sea but would not fish on some days, out of respect for the gods in whose face they shit earlier.
That's why the don't have toilets. They shit in the sea but would not fish on some days, out of respect for the gods in whose face they shit earlier.
YB 10 years ago
How can you turn this intellectual piece into insults if you cannot contribute meaningfully? If you are enlightened, you will know that we all descended from one blood. Please stop being petty.
How can you turn this intellectual piece into insults if you cannot contribute meaningfully? If you are enlightened, you will know that we all descended from one blood. Please stop being petty.
Askantwi 10 years ago
Sorry, my man. But the Biblical flood of Noah's time is true. Absolute truth. If it is too difficult for you to imagine, that does not mean it's not true. It is a fact. Believe it.
Sorry, my man. But the Biblical flood of Noah's time is true. Absolute truth. If it is too difficult for you to imagine, that does not mean it's not true. It is a fact. Believe it.
Pelicles 10 years ago
If you have ever read the Epic of Gilgamesh, you will know where the Biblical flood story originated. Noah's story was borrowed from that story. Trust me, there is no Biblical flood and it is all mythology.
If you have ever read the Epic of Gilgamesh, you will know where the Biblical flood story originated. Noah's story was borrowed from that story. Trust me, there is no Biblical flood and it is all mythology.
ABU 10 years ago
A fact may not be truth.you accepted to believe in the biblical flood because you are obliged based on the faith you practice and by logic
A fact may not be truth.you accepted to believe in the biblical flood because you are obliged based on the faith you practice and by logic
GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago
ALL HUMANS EMANATED FROM THE CONTINENT AFRICA/FROM THE EQUATOR. PLANTS DIE IF THEY R NOT EXPOSED TO SUNLIGHT.
BLACKMAN CAN'T THINK!
REMEMBER THE MOVIE: WHITE MEN CAN;T JUMP STARRING WESLEY SNIPES?
He said Africa has all ... read full comment
ALL HUMANS EMANATED FROM THE CONTINENT AFRICA/FROM THE EQUATOR. PLANTS DIE IF THEY R NOT EXPOSED TO SUNLIGHT.
BLACKMAN CAN'T THINK!
REMEMBER THE MOVIE: WHITE MEN CAN;T JUMP STARRING WESLEY SNIPES?
He said Africa has all the natural resources anyone could think of however, the citizens wallow in abject poverty because the leaders that are supposed to effectively utilise them for their
welfare are selfish and greedy....The Omanhen of Essikadu, Nana Kobina Nketsiah V says one major challenge dragging the development efforts of Africa is lack of leadership.
ALL THESE CORRUPT, USELESS SO CALLED LEADERS MUST BE SET ON FIRE AND BURNED ALIVE. BURN THEM ALL ALIVE OOOOOOOO TOM!
WICKED LEADERS! HOW CAN U SIT THERE AND ALLOW FOREIGNERS TO COME N OWN YOUR OWN SHIT. CAN YOU GO TO CHINA AND OWN CHINESE, INDIAN, LEBANESE PROPERTY, LAND JUST LIKE THAT?
Mark (UK) 10 years ago
Mmo ne kasa. When I observed this phenomenon (Chinese and foreigners buying and acquiring lands and resources that should be the sole reserve of government)and asked around what Ghanaians think of this, the overwhelming major ... read full comment
Mmo ne kasa. When I observed this phenomenon (Chinese and foreigners buying and acquiring lands and resources that should be the sole reserve of government)and asked around what Ghanaians think of this, the overwhelming majority were supportive of this.
Can a Ghanaian go to China and do galamsey. Incredible!
Santana 10 years ago
GHFUO, it looks like ur dead brain is now in recovery mode. First sensible comment u have made this year. So now u see why we don't need a foreigner to coach the Black Stars? You are learning slowly from the smart minds on ... read full comment
GHFUO, it looks like ur dead brain is now in recovery mode. First sensible comment u have made this year. So now u see why we don't need a foreigner to coach the Black Stars? You are learning slowly from the smart minds on this forum. It's good to know that at some point in life, even screwballs like u are ready to seek knowledge.
Bernard 10 years ago
You must be serious and check your findings well. All the islamic states are satan worshippers hence they have been severally won in the Bible to walk out from idol worship. Let me tell you if u read Isa 19:1,it's self explan ... read full comment
You must be serious and check your findings well. All the islamic states are satan worshippers hence they have been severally won in the Bible to walk out from idol worship. Let me tell you if u read Isa 19:1,it's self explanatory of the present situation in Egypt not to forget about the recent killing of Muammar al Qaddafi and Syria. The complesion of human race links to the descendency of Noah's children hence the 3 children have something to do with the human colour. To be continued
Tarimbia 10 years ago
Bernard or whatever ur name is, I sympathise wit ppl like u who know next to nothing abt Islam yet proffering ideas abt it. C'mon, man, do jx a little research n u will realise hw misinformed u r. D pt must b made dat no Musl ... read full comment
Bernard or whatever ur name is, I sympathise wit ppl like u who know next to nothing abt Islam yet proffering ideas abt it. C'mon, man, do jx a little research n u will realise hw misinformed u r. D pt must b made dat no Muslim worships idols, not any thing close to dat. Muslims worship The Lord who created Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, cos obviously Jesus didn't create himself, Muhammad, n all d prophets and living n non living things known and unknown to man.
GIDEON 10 years ago
Jesus never created himself because God never created himself. Jesus created Allah,Mohammad and every thing that exist.
Tarimbia, how is making a stone the central point of your worship different from idol worship.Like th ... read full comment
Jesus never created himself because God never created himself. Jesus created Allah,Mohammad and every thing that exist.
Tarimbia, how is making a stone the central point of your worship different from idol worship.Like the pagans, you secrefice animals to the kaaba during the eid-ul-adha,you travel to Mecca every year to go round it,and to kiss it. Prayer in any direction is unacceptable to Allah except prayer said in the direction of the stone which once was an idol worshiped by the pagans of Mecca before Mohammad ceased it from them with his warlords.
Nothing has the right to be worshiped, except YHWH.
ABU 10 years ago
Due to lack knowledge you have chosed believing in anything fed you without taking upon yourself to independently ascertain the truth.If moslems worship a stone christians as well worship the cross and the stone being natura ... read full comment
Due to lack knowledge you have chosed believing in anything fed you without taking upon yourself to independently ascertain the truth.If moslems worship a stone christians as well worship the cross and the stone being natural and God's creation contrarily to the cross constructed by man that i can also fabricate.
ABU 10 years ago
wHERE IS SATAN WORSHIPED,IN THE MOSLEM OR THE CHRISTIAN WORLD,BLOKE?
wHERE IS SATAN WORSHIPED,IN THE MOSLEM OR THE CHRISTIAN WORLD,BLOKE?
Benno 10 years ago
We should regard the bible as a religious book, not as a scientific or historical report.
We should regard the bible as a religious book, not as a scientific or historical report.
YB 10 years ago
All those rubbishing this article should do some thorough search. The brain inside our head was not put there just to believe everything blindly. The Bible was first printed by man and men do have motives. There are more ques ... read full comment
All those rubbishing this article should do some thorough search. The brain inside our head was not put there just to believe everything blindly. The Bible was first printed by man and men do have motives. There are more questions than answers and attempting to uncover the truth doesn't make one an atheist.
I think we should encourage people who are bold enough to question the authenticity of historical accounts as Andy K has done. After all, we all know the Christianity was brought down to us by some white man. If it was easier to accept the white man's version, why is it so difficult to spare some time to examine the credibility of our own brother's version?
Ghanaba kronkron 10 years ago
each language or culture has it's name for the SUPREME CREATOR,WHY do you say for instance,worshipping 'ONYANKOPON'in my way of life is demonic unless you follow ONYAME in someone's way of life?
each language or culture has it's name for the SUPREME CREATOR,WHY do you say for instance,worshipping 'ONYANKOPON'in my way of life is demonic unless you follow ONYAME in someone's way of life?
Pelicles 10 years ago
Andy, have you ever come across the story of the Epic of Gilgamesh? That is where Noah's Ark originated from. That story predates the Bible.
Andy, have you ever come across the story of the Epic of Gilgamesh? That is where Noah's Ark originated from. That story predates the Bible.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Pelicles, I mentioned it in my article. And I had posted articles on that in the '90s too.
Actually, the Genesis account mixed up at least one other flood story with that of the Gilgamesh Epic, thereby introducing a contra ... read full comment
Pelicles, I mentioned it in my article. And I had posted articles on that in the '90s too.
Actually, the Genesis account mixed up at least one other flood story with that of the Gilgamesh Epic, thereby introducing a contradiction. one of the many contradictions in the Bible. It is one of the things I intend to point out later.
Andy-K
KK 10 years ago
"Dear reader, the truth is that we Africans are not the descendants of any of Noah's children, simply because the flood story is a myth! No God ever destroyed living things on the earth with a flood."
That is just it! The ... read full comment
"Dear reader, the truth is that we Africans are not the descendants of any of Noah's children, simply because the flood story is a myth! No God ever destroyed living things on the earth with a flood."
That is just it! The stories in the Bible are just myths that have had their useful purposes. They are not truths. Every people has had their myths.
Science is now uncovering many truths gradually and these trump myths, whether they are in the Bible or Quran, at all times.
The best thing about science is that it lays no claimS to ABSOLUTE TRUTH! Science revises its findings and theories ALL THE TIME. What we know today will not necessarily be what we know tomorrow. It is on Religion that claims we know the truth already and need not search any further - or search only within the confines of the so called known truth.
Revealed religion can NEVER trump tried and tested scientific methods.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Hello Brother Andy,
This is a masterpiece.
Your manner of questioning received knowledge, critical thinking, is what our educational institutions should be teaching our students.
Well done.
Hello Brother Andy,
This is a masterpiece.
Your manner of questioning received knowledge, critical thinking, is what our educational institutions should be teaching our students.
Well done.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
My brother, what can I say, thanks for the compliments. To me, those were very easy questions to ask. I've been asking similar question since I was a mere kid.
At the age of about 6 when in call one, I returned from school ... read full comment
My brother, what can I say, thanks for the compliments. To me, those were very easy questions to ask. I've been asking similar question since I was a mere kid.
At the age of about 6 when in call one, I returned from school one day and queried my mother as to the veracity of what the teacher told us about how rain fell, attributing that to God fetching water and pouring it onto a sieve. I didn't believe her, as I already knew about cloud formation and precipitation before I went to class one, thanks to my senior siblings and all those tons of books in the house, including kids books on science and geography. Before I tired her out and she asked me to ask my father the qs when he came, as she tried to back the teacher, an auntie, Madam Tamakloe's toli, I asked: if God created the earth and heaven, where was God before coming to create the heaven and then the earth? Needless to say that my father too couldn't answer my questions to my satisfaction and so asked me to learn hard and I'd find the answers.
In secondary form one, I seized the first opportunity to ask our BK teacher, now Rev. Lawluvi, my pet qs,: where was God before.... As you could imagine, it caused an uproar in the class. Wise man that he is, he didn't try to play any hanky panky with me, admitting that he couldn't answer the question and if I reached my 30s plus, I might find the answer for myself. It is obvious that I am still asking the same questions (and I can't be said to very dense even though my mum said I am hard of having things sink in:-)). And my hairs are fast greying, huh? So ten years ago, I seized the opportunity of cyberspace and the multitude of MAs, MScs, MPhils, PhDs on the premier Ghanaian forum, Okyeame, to begin asking my questions again. Guess what? I hit not only a stone wall but people who were ready to subject me to the Inquisition, racks and all! Phew!
Anyway, since one of my many nicknames in the past was "Mohammed", I decided to go to the mountain [of knowledge in the libraries] myself. I was therefore ready to answer most of the queries in even this article myself but the audience turned out to be, to my dismay, like the class one pupils of my first year in school. Only problem is that I was like the mathematics teacher with some algebraic equation about to teach them! As a mathematician yourself, I guess you can appreciate my analogy. Ten years on, I am happy to say that reading the comments so far make me feel that there is some hope for us on the horizon.
Below is something I wrote in response to Kwesi, another contributor on what Gen. Nunoo Mensah said and how people are not telling the truth in Ghana in spite of the surge in embracing Christianity. It encapsulates my world view and is valid here as well.
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Anyway, I find myself agreeing with much of what you wrote, except the following, which I take umbrage at.
"New knowledge creation leads to discarding old and long-held axioms, principles and traditions. Eternal and everlasting truths can only be acquired by spiritual advancement, for matters of religion are faith-based, subjective and unprovable in our scientific method ways."
I think you seriously contradict the scientific and logical derivation of the truth angles you espoused by attributing "absolute truths" to the religion-derived or ecclesiastical knowledge - one of the 3 main sources of knowledge - with that muddled thinking in your epistemology. It is false to claim that knowledge claimed by religion cannot be subjected to scientific verification or logical scrutiny. Did Galileo not prove that the earth was round and not the centre of the universe and was nearly subjected to the Inquisition had he not wisely recanted to avoid the rack, only for the Catholic Church to finally admit in the 1980s that Galileo was right, but curiously still claiming that the Church was right too, in order to preserve inerrancy of the Church? Perhaps, you should look at this duplicitous, forked-tongued tendency of the Church to look truth in the face, filifili, black like that and still claim that it was white as snow as the source of the lying, corruption and and that you ranted against as bad in our budgeoning, religion-infested Ghanaian society. So the would-be inquisitors of Galileo, which btw, included professors of learning, looked at the stars through the telescope he created and proclaimed that Galileo had pulled a fast one on them by some trickery, painting those stars into the glass! Seeing is believing doesn't work on the minds and paradigm of the religious, and so go through life ignoring all the truths many fields of learning have revealed about the universe which disproved their claims but it doesn't turn their persistence in remaining ignorant and obstinate in maintaining their false claims absolute and eternal "truths"! To claim so is humbug! Absolute humbug!
And if you have some idea of axiomatic or canonical logic, you'd be familiar with some canons of logic which are considered as absolutes and provable, being the basis of mathematics and science itself. Any 2nd year Philosophy student should know what I mean, having tackled the truth tables of the sophomore year.
Perhaps, some of you should give a thought to how Europeans and Arabs had used Christianity and Islam to plunder, enslave, colonise and exploit others respectively and you'd realise that some Africans/Ghanaians are simply emulating what others had done before.
Andy-K
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Dear Brother Yao,
Indeed you have depth.
I could not help but enjoy the analytic depth of your essay and responses to readers.
Like I said before, this is what we need, that's, questioning, questioning, and questio ... read full comment
Dear Brother Yao,
Indeed you have depth.
I could not help but enjoy the analytic depth of your essay and responses to readers.
Like I said before, this is what we need, that's, questioning, questioning, and questioning orthodoxies. That's the only way we can progress.
This is what had moved the West ahead of us. And now Asia. Africa is still behind, drowned in the ocean of received orthodoxies. What a shame!
Bravo, my brother.
ABU 10 years ago
Demystefying of the slavish African mentalities,Andy C.Y. thanks a million.We are Africans,and proud inspite all our predicaments but one day we will reach there.Why are we not Arabs but Jews?,happily we are none of the two b ... read full comment
Demystefying of the slavish African mentalities,Andy C.Y. thanks a million.We are Africans,and proud inspite all our predicaments but one day we will reach there.Why are we not Arabs but Jews?,happily we are none of the two but Black Africans with our unique identities and differences.
Analyst 10 years ago
Noah and his sons predate the Jewish nation. It is out of Noah and his sons that all the peoples of the world descend.
The Almighty blessed them to be fruitful and fill the earth.(Gen 9:1).
Concerning the curse Noah pronou ... read full comment
Noah and his sons predate the Jewish nation. It is out of Noah and his sons that all the peoples of the world descend.
The Almighty blessed them to be fruitful and fill the earth.(Gen 9:1).
Concerning the curse Noah pronounced on Ham's son, Canaan, the Bible does not give any link between Canaan and the Black race. The Bible does not indicate the skin colour of Ham who did wrong in the sight of Noah. The Bible is clear about who the descendants of Canaan are: these are the Canaanites whose lands God gave to the Jews to possess.
The Bible is a book that even the Devil attimes uses to justify his wickedness. It was in this light that some people used Canaan's curse, to be servant of his uncles, to justify apartheid. The doctrine that the Black race is cursed is not from the Bible. God has not cursed or blessed any race more than others.
There are many other curses in the Bible from which we can draw comparison. For instance, in Gen 49:3, Jacob pronounced a curse on his first son Reuben for defiling his father's bed. Despite this curse, Reuben and his descendants maintained their inheritance as one of the 12 tribes of Israel.
At any rate by sin, all the human race come under God's own curse- death. But in Jesus all the sin of the world has been wiped out. What is left is for us to believe.
ABU 10 years ago
Don't believe in the doctrine that in Jesus all the sins of the world has been wiped away,it's a fallacy.If sinning is punishable you can't forgo it.Only the victim of a sin commited by you can forgive you because it was not ... read full comment
Don't believe in the doctrine that in Jesus all the sins of the world has been wiped away,it's a fallacy.If sinning is punishable you can't forgo it.Only the victim of a sin commited by you can forgive you because it was not perpetrated against Jesus.You'll do yourself a great diserve should you continue believing in this dogma
Analyst 10 years ago
The article we are commenting on touches on a misinterpretation of the Bible. My comment therefore is on the stand of the Bible at whose centre stands Jesus. As far as the Bible is concerned, it is in Jesus that the cursse t ... read full comment
The article we are commenting on touches on a misinterpretation of the Bible. My comment therefore is on the stand of the Bible at whose centre stands Jesus. As far as the Bible is concerned, it is in Jesus that the cursse that sin brings is reversedfor all human beings.
Eng. John aliyu 9 years ago
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You dnt knw how water got into coconut..u will nt knw hw blk man got into exetance...is a mysteries dnt bother urself just live a good life that please ur creator.. +2347038053567
Kojo Billy Duncan 10 years ago
Our people just refuse to think.
Our people just refuse to think.
syncopa 10 years ago
Why would Blacks in fertile Africa let Arabs and Jews from that small dry "middle-east" peninsula come and sell us their self-promoting propaganda and buy our minds and souls and have left-over change to buy our bodies?
Why would Blacks in fertile Africa let Arabs and Jews from that small dry "middle-east" peninsula come and sell us their self-promoting propaganda and buy our minds and souls and have left-over change to buy our bodies?
Andy Sowah -Silver Spring MD USA 10 years ago
Who said Israel was established after 2nd World War-ome people like the writer just like writing lies. I think they get their ideas from the pit of hell-thear minds smeared with lies upon lies, they will never know thr TRUTH, ... read full comment
Who said Israel was established after 2nd World War-ome people like the writer just like writing lies. I think they get their ideas from the pit of hell-thear minds smeared with lies upon lies, they will never know thr TRUTH, becos they shun the TRUTH.
KING 9 years ago
this writer is totally biased, uneducated and a heathen.go get good books by renowned authors like j.a rodgers,john jonhson, josifus e.t.c aand feed your empty brain. I should also say that you are fool for not believing the ... read full comment
this writer is totally biased, uneducated and a heathen.go get good books by renowned authors like j.a rodgers,john jonhson, josifus e.t.c aand feed your empty brain. I should also say that you are fool for not believing the bible's account of events
AS EUROPEANS BELIEVE1
God created the Whiteman and the Blackman undoubtedly evolved from the Ape, evident of which lies in the fact that, even today, a lot of our nigger brothers bear the exact features, and Behave like the ancient Apes. Inusah ...
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Akora Andy, you are fighting a loosing battle as as this topical concept in discussion is concerned. The countably many ignorants who parade themselves as believers of Gods word, thus the scriptures, outnumber the countably f ...
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Who cares about the shit you wrote in 1977 haaaa! "Kwasea!", fuck off!
My Friend it is the other way around. Every human being on our planet earth irrespective of their "COLOUR" green, blue come from AFRICA. If you are a bible fanatic, then I an sorry you are LOST.
Modern humans originated from Africa. All the stories in the Jewish holy books are oral history from their experience from one generation to the next during the migration exodus out of Africa. The Black man is the genesis of ...
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Mr. author, we do not believe in blind faith as christians. All the testimonies you hear us give in our churches and day to day lives are real experiences. If you believe God doesn't exist and for which reason we should stop ...
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The world is too much complex for man to understand everything. Funny the way fools rather think they know everything
With faith, you can believe that a woman who has never had sex or in vitro fertilization can give birth to a child. With faith, you can believe in anything at all because you don't have to prove that the thing exists or happe ...
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My friend, I don't know about Satan's knowledge of history. In fact, I don't even know that Satan exists and so won't want a disputation on that [at least, not for now], as I'd like to keep to things that I know at the momen ...
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The author is challenging us to 'think'. If you are scared to think and think straight to be free of mental domination by others, that is your problem!
That's why the don't have toilets. They shit in the sea but would not fish on some days, out of respect for the gods in whose face they shit earlier.
How can you turn this intellectual piece into insults if you cannot contribute meaningfully? If you are enlightened, you will know that we all descended from one blood. Please stop being petty.
Sorry, my man. But the Biblical flood of Noah's time is true. Absolute truth. If it is too difficult for you to imagine, that does not mean it's not true. It is a fact. Believe it.
If you have ever read the Epic of Gilgamesh, you will know where the Biblical flood story originated. Noah's story was borrowed from that story. Trust me, there is no Biblical flood and it is all mythology.
A fact may not be truth.you accepted to believe in the biblical flood because you are obliged based on the faith you practice and by logic
ALL HUMANS EMANATED FROM THE CONTINENT AFRICA/FROM THE EQUATOR. PLANTS DIE IF THEY R NOT EXPOSED TO SUNLIGHT.
BLACKMAN CAN'T THINK!
REMEMBER THE MOVIE: WHITE MEN CAN;T JUMP STARRING WESLEY SNIPES?
He said Africa has all ...
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Mmo ne kasa. When I observed this phenomenon (Chinese and foreigners buying and acquiring lands and resources that should be the sole reserve of government)and asked around what Ghanaians think of this, the overwhelming major ...
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GHFUO, it looks like ur dead brain is now in recovery mode. First sensible comment u have made this year. So now u see why we don't need a foreigner to coach the Black Stars? You are learning slowly from the smart minds on ...
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You must be serious and check your findings well. All the islamic states are satan worshippers hence they have been severally won in the Bible to walk out from idol worship. Let me tell you if u read Isa 19:1,it's self explan ...
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Bernard or whatever ur name is, I sympathise wit ppl like u who know next to nothing abt Islam yet proffering ideas abt it. C'mon, man, do jx a little research n u will realise hw misinformed u r. D pt must b made dat no Musl ...
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Jesus never created himself because God never created himself. Jesus created Allah,Mohammad and every thing that exist.
Tarimbia, how is making a stone the central point of your worship different from idol worship.Like th ...
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Due to lack knowledge you have chosed believing in anything fed you without taking upon yourself to independently ascertain the truth.If moslems worship a stone christians as well worship the cross and the stone being natura ...
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wHERE IS SATAN WORSHIPED,IN THE MOSLEM OR THE CHRISTIAN WORLD,BLOKE?
We should regard the bible as a religious book, not as a scientific or historical report.
All those rubbishing this article should do some thorough search. The brain inside our head was not put there just to believe everything blindly. The Bible was first printed by man and men do have motives. There are more ques ...
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each language or culture has it's name for the SUPREME CREATOR,WHY do you say for instance,worshipping 'ONYANKOPON'in my way of life is demonic unless you follow ONYAME in someone's way of life?
Andy, have you ever come across the story of the Epic of Gilgamesh? That is where Noah's Ark originated from. That story predates the Bible.
Pelicles, I mentioned it in my article. And I had posted articles on that in the '90s too.
Actually, the Genesis account mixed up at least one other flood story with that of the Gilgamesh Epic, thereby introducing a contra ...
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"Dear reader, the truth is that we Africans are not the descendants of any of Noah's children, simply because the flood story is a myth! No God ever destroyed living things on the earth with a flood."
That is just it! The ...
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Hello Brother Andy,
This is a masterpiece.
Your manner of questioning received knowledge, critical thinking, is what our educational institutions should be teaching our students.
Well done.
My brother, what can I say, thanks for the compliments. To me, those were very easy questions to ask. I've been asking similar question since I was a mere kid.
At the age of about 6 when in call one, I returned from school ...
read full comment
Dear Brother Yao,
Indeed you have depth.
I could not help but enjoy the analytic depth of your essay and responses to readers.
Like I said before, this is what we need, that's, questioning, questioning, and questio ...
read full comment
Demystefying of the slavish African mentalities,Andy C.Y. thanks a million.We are Africans,and proud inspite all our predicaments but one day we will reach there.Why are we not Arabs but Jews?,happily we are none of the two b ...
read full comment
Noah and his sons predate the Jewish nation. It is out of Noah and his sons that all the peoples of the world descend.
The Almighty blessed them to be fruitful and fill the earth.(Gen 9:1).
Concerning the curse Noah pronou ...
read full comment
Don't believe in the doctrine that in Jesus all the sins of the world has been wiped away,it's a fallacy.If sinning is punishable you can't forgo it.Only the victim of a sin commited by you can forgive you because it was not ...
read full comment
The article we are commenting on touches on a misinterpretation of the Bible. My comment therefore is on the stand of the Bible at whose centre stands Jesus. As far as the Bible is concerned, it is in Jesus that the cursse t ...
read full comment
You dnt knw how water got into coconut..u will nt knw hw blk man got into exetance...is a mysteries dnt bother urself just live a good life that please ur creator.. +2347038053567
Our people just refuse to think.
Why would Blacks in fertile Africa let Arabs and Jews from that small dry "middle-east" peninsula come and sell us their self-promoting propaganda and buy our minds and souls and have left-over change to buy our bodies?
Who said Israel was established after 2nd World War-ome people like the writer just like writing lies. I think they get their ideas from the pit of hell-thear minds smeared with lies upon lies, they will never know thr TRUTH, ...
read full comment
this writer is totally biased, uneducated and a heathen.go get good books by renowned authors like j.a rodgers,john jonhson, josifus e.t.c aand feed your empty brain. I should also say that you are fool for not believing the ...
read full comment