SatanWasSetUp wrote: How did she and Ham meet? Where did he take her on their first date? These are all questions I want to know.
Can you imagine having the name Ham? Talk about an invitation to being treated like a piece of meat. Of course, he'd still be expected to bring home the bacon, and to pork his wife (I wonder if he tasted salty). I suppose he was never sick; he was always cured. I also wonder if his wife called him Honey. And was he the reason women started saying all men are pigs?
These are all questions I want to know.
One person want to attack the story because the name Egyptus was translated to be more recognizable and another is reading English into a non-English name. Special.
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Sethbag wrote:If a given LDS scripture has storyline which includes the global, catastrophic Flood, however, you can know it's just fiction. As if you didn't know that already.
The flood story may well be fiction, but perhaps Abraham honestly believed it when he wrote it. I have no reason to doubt the doctrines in the scriptures even if a few historical details are incorrect.
You are right about one thing. I'm more concerned over the flood thing than I am over the language word games. This language thing is about as significant to me as the "adieu" thing.
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The Nehor wrote:One person want to attack the story because the name Egyptus was translated to be more recognizable and another is reading English into a non-English name. Special.
Uh, I think the first is an interesting point and the second an obvious joke.
I want to know why the whole "land under water" deal hasn't been tied into the Aztec founding of the metropolis of Tenochtitlán on Lake Texcoco. Surely there's some kind of parallel to be found....
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
Calculus Crusader wrote:Now, "Egypt" is a Greek word; the Egyptian word for Egypt is Kemet. Why would the eponymous founder of Egypt (according to Joe) have a Greek given name?
The answer is obvious. Must you rub it in? At some point I think more Mormons may come to regard this book as Sacred Allegory.
SatanWasSetUp wrote:When it says she first discovered Egypt and it was underwater, did she discover it while on the Ark looking over the side into the clear deep ocean seeing the land below and saying "This is the place"?
Or maybe it was during the cyclical flooding of the Nile which made Egypt fertile.
Nah, I like the theory that she saw it while floating in the ark better.
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