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Looking Deeper Into The Bible
by
Matthew McGinnis
The Leprechaun

The Bible states in Genesis that the entire heaven and earth was
created in six days. Man was created on that sixth day and on the
seventh day God rested. Scientists however have proven that the age of
the dinosaurs began, reigned and ended millions of years before man was
ever put on the earth. The only way one could explain this
contradiction is to say that a biblical day was an equivalent to
millions or even billions of common days. Now, if we can agree with
this, we are questioning "Just how mighty and powerful IS God if it
takes him millions and millions of years to create the universe when in
various places throughtout the Bible it talks of God destroying cities
or doing other such things with ease. Did he really take him this long
to do this?
After God flooded the earth by making it rain for forty days and
forty nights, he told Noah (Chap.9 verse 8) that he was sorry for what
he had done and that he would never flood the earth again. As a
symbol to all mankind of this promise he created the rainbow. Science
has found why a rainbow exists. It has to do with two simple
properties one being of water and the other of light. The first,
refraction or the Prism Effect, the ability of water to split or bend
light. The second, the fact that white light is made up of all the
colors of the rainbow. These two properties are what makes a rainbow.
Science has also found that all living things require water in order to
survive and that most all living things require sunlight. In order for
God to have given the two previously mentioned properties to water and
sunlight at the time of him making the promise to Noah would mean that
he also would have had to change the genetic structure of every living
thing on earth so that they could survive under the new properties of
water and light for which they had survived on for so long. If one can
agree that this is what really happened, then we are forced to rethink
about the previous paragraph in which it sugests that it might have
taken God millions of years to create the universe. Wouldn't it be
logical to say that it would take a fair amount of time for him to do
the alterations to everything on earth? If so, wouldn't some things
die before he could have gotten around to correcting them? Seems like
a lot of trouble to go through just to create a rainbow.
Before God cast Satan out of heaven, He was God's high angel. The
Bible describes heaven as containing no evil and of being made up of
pure good. If this was so how could Satan have been evil to try to
overthrow God. There was no evil in heaven foNo Satan to BE evil. Also,
if he had been such a wise angel, don't you think he would have been
wise enough to know that he couldn't overthrow God, the most powerful
force in existence?
God told Noah (Genesis Chap. 6 verse 15) to build an ark five
hundred cubits by fifty cubits by thirty cubits. A cubit being the
length from the tip of the middle finger to the base of the elbow, an
average of twenty inches. This figures out to be an ark with the
dimensions eight hundred thirty three feet by eighty three feet by
fifty feet Giving the ark three stories. That is slightly wider and
almost three times as long as a football field. Yet one six hundred
year old man built the entire thing in the short amount of time given
to him by God? Ok, maybe he did. To continue, Noah was commanded to
bring forth into the ark two of every animal on the earth. Granted the
ark was big but for it to be big enough to hold two of every kind of
animal on earth is far from being to believe considering there are
hundreds of thousands of different animals on earth. Even if two of
everything DID fit on the ark, Noah and the animals remained on the ark
for barely under a year. A closer figure would be three hundred fifty
five days. Now, take for example an elephant. An elephant eats an
average of five hundred pounds of food a day. Not even considering how
many types of elephants there are, thats one thousand pounds of food a
day to feed just two of them. This figures out to a food supply for
two elephants alone to be three hundred fifty five thousand pounds of
food. If this was to be figured out for each and every animal on the
ark, one would need hundreds of times more room for food than for
animals. There is no possible way to fit all the animals plus their
food on an ark of this size. What about animals like the lion which
are meat eaters. Noah would have had to have found a way to keep his
entire food supply fresh for a year. If he kept his food alive
untilneeded by the lion, how much food would have been needed to feed
the lion's food? After the rains ceased (Genisis Chap.8 verse 6), Noah
sent out a raven and a dove every seven days to see if the waters had
fallen. The waters were of a depth of fifteen cubits or twenty five
feet above the highest point on earth at the end of the flood yet the
dove returned with an olive leaf that had been plucked off of an olive
tree (Genisis Chap.8 verse 11). It is impossible for an olive tree to
live under water for the amount of time it would have taken the waters
to rise and fall twenty five feet so how could the dove have found this
leaf?
The Bible states that God will go to 'The four corners of the
earth' and gather together all of the beleivers. Up until columbus
discovered that the world was round, everyone believed it to be flat,
thus the four corners of a flat earth. If God really created the earth,
don't you think he would of known it was round and therefore would not
have spoken of it as being flat with corners?
In the first four books of the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke
and John, Each one told of the crucifixion of Jesus. Matthew (Chap.27)
says that Jesus was offered a drink of vinegar and gall and he would
not accept it. Mark "Chap.15) says that he was offered a drink of wine
and myrrh and that he would not accept it. Luke (Chap.23) says that he
was offered a drink of vinegar and does not state whether or not he
accepted it. John (Chap.19) says that Jesus asked for a drink and he
was given vinegar and hyssops. Who is correct? Is any of them?
What I am trying to accomplish by writing this report is not to
make people stop believing in Christianity or the teachings of the
Bible unless that is what they choose is best for them. I strongly
believe that the Bible has many truths and teachings that are
beneficial to mankind. The point I am trying to make is that MAN wrote
the Bible and GOD did NOT sign his name to it. So don't believe
everything one might read in the Bible because, just like folk stories,
it changes each time the stories of it are told and are passed down
from generation to generation until finally, somebody wrote the stories
down in hopes of them not to be changed anymore. By this time they had
allready ended up with a garbled up messthat looked nothing like the
original. Keep in mind that many things were also lostin the
translation of the Bible from Greek to english. One last thing to keep
in mind, Think about how many different religions there are and how
many different Bibles these religions have. These Bibles all are
different and some completly contradict others. For example, the
Satanic and the Christian. Can they ALL be correct? If not, which one
is? Maybe a part of all of them are correct.

A New Age Interpretation of Heaven and Hell

Most religions teach that according to how one lives his life
determines whether or not one goes to heaven or hell. This simple
truth can be accepted by both Christians and by those who do not
believe in the Christian God or those who believe in reincarnation. To
a Christian, everyone has one life and only one life to do good in
order to go to a place where there is no anger, hate, jealousy or evil,
called Heaven. If one live an evil life that person's soul goes to a
place where it is tormented and burned for all eternity in order to pay
for its sins. The Non-Christian belief might be much the same except
for a few things. Hell is not eternal unless one chooses for it to be.
Everyone has what is called karma. Webster defines karma as actions in
one lifetime that determines the fate of the next lifetime. For
example if in one life, a person was prejudice against a given race and
tormented that race, in that person's next life he would incarnate as a
person of that given race to live a life of torment from those who are
prejudice against him just as he once was. Or in short, karma could be
defines as 'whatever goes around comes around'. A soul's karma must be
resolved before that soul can be free from the wheel of reincarnation.
In order to accomplish this, that soul must incarnate over and over
again until all its karma is resolved, thus this is where the saying,
'Life is hell' may have come from. If a person chooses to live their
lives in evil, that person does nothing but add to their karma and it
therefore takes longer to resolve it, perhaps all eternity. So, maybe
life really is hell. When a person's karma is all resolved, that
person's soul is released from the wheel and thus released from the
physical plane so that that soul may now evolve more quickly on its
path to merge with the All That Is or God.
Perhaps this simple truth as stated above was taught by Jesus or
other many other Messias but over the centuries, it was altered to the
way the Christians now believe it to be. One possible reason for this
alteration might have been The Church itself. The Church rationalized
that they must not teach their disciples the truth, knowing that evil
does exist, in order to keep this evil to a minimum. If they were to
teach the truth and those who chose to follow evil learned this truth,
they might use it to their advantage. They no longer would have to be
afraid of dying and going to the firey hell but in turn all they would
have to do is reincarnte and continue their rein of evil. These people
would not worry about what would happen if one of their evil plans were
to fail and there were executed for their deeds. As a whole, chaos
would break out so the alteration in the simple truth was necessary.
It is logical to conclude that if this was done, The Church may
have found reasons to alter other truths that were at one time taught.
Can one really be sure? Perhaps the most logcal thing to do is to
study and be open to the many different religions and beliefs and then
decide for oneself which path to follow.

Disclaimer

I don't want people to think that I am attacking the religion of
Christianity. The reason I am talking about this religion is because I
was raised a Christian and therefore, I know a little about it. I have
tried to make the facts in this report as accurate as possible but if
for some reason there is an incorrect statement here I would very much
like to know about it so it can be corrected. The interpretations given
are of myself, the author, and are in no way ment to be interpreted by
the readers as the beleifs of others but only as the opinions of one
person as I feel they need to be stated.
I know I probably am going to get a lot of slack from those of you
on the net for me writting this. So let me say right here and now that
I do not claim to be an athority on this subject and I may not have
stated one thing here that any of you may agree with. I admit, I may
have the facts wrong and if I do, I apologize. I would still like to
hear your comments on this article though.

Thank you for your time and
Blessings to all,
The Leprechaun
Matthew McGinnis