tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598971867910555010.post8323742449526685081..comments2023-06-12T03:15:22.725-07:00Comments on The Bible (Annotated): Genesis 5. Begattin'!! And Enoch takes a long walkdarqmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14441186525417484953noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598971867910555010.post-16034820698700818952017-06-11T11:04:02.005-07:002017-06-11T11:04:02.005-07:00"So the land is still bad for farming, one-th..."So the land is still bad for farming, one-thousand-and-fifty-six years after the curse!"<br /><br />Yeah... it's the Middle East, it's a desert!<br /><br />"Why stay on really bad farming land for one-thousand-and-fifty-six years?"<br /><br />And why do they fight so hard over it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598971867910555010.post-25984021564073415842013-02-26T06:47:20.048-08:002013-02-26T06:47:20.048-08:00I did not notice that, I was to busy counting up t...I did not notice that, I was to busy counting up the years, I should be more diligent.<br /><br />As to the significance though, I'm afraid that assuming any kind of a solar year reference might verge on the either the "Texas Sharp Shooter" fallacy or simply confirmation bias, There are a good number of life-spans in this book that fall inside the 300 to 400 year range, that one of those happens to be the same number (barring the quarter or so days difference) as the number of days in a solar year is pretty much no surprise. <br /><br />Nice observation though.<br />darqmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14441186525417484953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598971867910555010.post-37817647297481326452013-02-22T19:39:49.692-08:002013-02-22T19:39:49.692-08:00Did you notice that Enoch was taken while he was 3...Did you notice that Enoch was taken while he was 365?.. A solar year reference perhaps?!<br />Salamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01410040900656015293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598971867910555010.post-39046081839566525002012-12-18T06:33:40.084-08:002012-12-18T06:33:40.084-08:00> we are going to begin again, this time with l...> we are going to begin again, this time with less detail<br /><br />I think we are seeing concurrent events. We know what's going on in Nod, now we are going to see the "meanwhile, on Earth" bit.<br /><br />> this data would lend itself to some sort of tabular format<br /><br />Thinking the same thing.<br /><br />> Enoch is born 622AE. I wonder if he was named ofter the city in Nod or his distant relative after whom the city was named.<br /><br />If it is known on Earth that Nod has a city called Enoch, or that second cousin x-times-removed Enoch was born there, logically there must be some communication between Nod and Earth. Unless it's just a coincidence of names.<br /><br />> And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech<br /><br />Serious lack of imagination with names, I'm starting to believe the 'coincidence' theory.<br /><br />> So the land is still bad for farming, one-thousand-and-fifty-six years after the curse!<br /><br />Perhaps LORD forgot to turn it off, like an immersion heater? "Damn it, left the curse on all millennium. That's going to be expensive."<br />Fatmanhttp://dreamtrack.co.uk/noreply@blogger.com